1 | In the hour of perturbation, thou canst not hear the answer to thy prayers. | |
2 | For more, read my new book, focus: a simplicity manifesto in the age of distraction. | |
3 | There philosophical discoveries still have this power to unsettle the world. | |
4 | Inventing new devices and making them pay off is an organizationally messy process that corporations will tolerate only to a point. | |
5 | Meanwhile, in chaotic, divided, inefficient Europe, when one ruler decided to repress his innovators, "they did no more than switch the center of economic gravity from one area to another." |