ideas2happy at Tedxtampabay

I presented ideas2happy at TedxTampaBay a couple of weeks ago. My thesis is that obsessive focus on shareholder wealth maximization leads to evil, but that obsessive focus on customer and employee happiness leads to shareholder wealth maximization.

Video here.

Slides here.

I hold up the philosophies of Google (“don’t be evil”) and Zappos (“delivering happiness”) as examples. [...]

A nation adrift

Ever paused to reflect on the odd nature of jurisdiction? The rules that govern your behavior change as you move to different sections of the earth’s crust. Don’t like the rules here? Go stand on another rock.

Land-centric provincialism seems increasingly archaic in the age of the internet, a truly global village where [...]