Last Wednesday, Ross Douthat devoted his NYT column to applying the stasis/dynamism model I developed in The Future and Its Enemies to understanding Elon Musk: A term like “conservative” doesn’t fit the Tesla tycoon; even “libertarian,” while closer to the mark, associates Musk with a lot of ideas that I don’t think he particularly cares about. A better label comes from Virginia Postrel, in her 1998 book “The Future and Its Enemies”: Musk is what she calls a “dynamist,” meaning someone whose primary commitments are to exploration and discovery, someone who believes that the best society is one that’s always inventing, transforming, doing something new.
At a Princeton reunions panel on energy and the environment, we heard one panelist encourage everyone to have at most only one child. It’s the same assumption, that taming capitalism and limiting growth is the solution. But history and the economic analysis of growth teaches the opposite. Producing MORE young scientists will help us innovate our way out of these problems.
I would like to know how to virtually attend the Breakthrough Institute event. Plus get back in touch with you generally. arnold at arnoldkling dot com
Your command and clarity were both missed...and now most welcome. The Future and its Enemies is a good place to start, in gearing up for the turbulence to come. Thanks for rejoining the fight.
i occasionally work at some of the good "digging in deep" process of obtaining. What is obtained from the work of d-i-d would be of some form of certain and guaranteed value as/when an application of some of the (obtained/realized, associated) parts are checked for what such would soon show up in (my) product. Product i should be talking of, promoting, establishing identify of (branding of +)...along with some relative other factors that won't be too easily dismissed (but can of course be placed in the que for processing as called for).
As for my good and proud product, this should first and always in some context be of service for me and some of/for my nice heritage (of which I most probably should be concerned with another time and place)...then properly shared?
I share with you of my good something, etc. Would you be able to say something, etc etc?
When I first became interested in the idea and the field of leadership in 1984, I discovered that part of what was missing is what you characterize as dynamism. Leadership was mostly a role and a title in an organization. I like the dynamist idea as collecting point for a host of personal disciplines and beliefs that can envigorate a person's life. Later as my thinking on leadership developed I came to see "that all leadership begins with personal initiative to create impact that makes a difference that matters." I had an encounter several years ago with a welder who worked for a mining company in Utah. He told me that he kept asking the company to let him do more. They refused. I suggested that he look outside of his job for those opportunities. That he should go to the local community college and learn metal fabrication and start to create works of art. His smile showed me that the idea really appeal to him. Thanks for your good work.
The Future and Its Enemies is a top-ten book for me—one of the most foundational and enduring books for me.
At a Princeton reunions panel on energy and the environment, we heard one panelist encourage everyone to have at most only one child. It’s the same assumption, that taming capitalism and limiting growth is the solution. But history and the economic analysis of growth teaches the opposite. Producing MORE young scientists will help us innovate our way out of these problems.
I would like to know how to virtually attend the Breakthrough Institute event. Plus get back in touch with you generally. arnold at arnoldkling dot com
Your command and clarity were both missed...and now most welcome. The Future and its Enemies is a good place to start, in gearing up for the turbulence to come. Thanks for rejoining the fight.
i occasionally work at some of the good "digging in deep" process of obtaining. What is obtained from the work of d-i-d would be of some form of certain and guaranteed value as/when an application of some of the (obtained/realized, associated) parts are checked for what such would soon show up in (my) product. Product i should be talking of, promoting, establishing identify of (branding of +)...along with some relative other factors that won't be too easily dismissed (but can of course be placed in the que for processing as called for).
As for my good and proud product, this should first and always in some context be of service for me and some of/for my nice heritage (of which I most probably should be concerned with another time and place)...then properly shared?
I share with you of my good something, etc. Would you be able to say something, etc etc?
I've missed you! Thanks for starting this new blog/newsletter.
It'd be wonderful to one day vote for the/a 'Dynamist' party!
When I first became interested in the idea and the field of leadership in 1984, I discovered that part of what was missing is what you characterize as dynamism. Leadership was mostly a role and a title in an organization. I like the dynamist idea as collecting point for a host of personal disciplines and beliefs that can envigorate a person's life. Later as my thinking on leadership developed I came to see "that all leadership begins with personal initiative to create impact that makes a difference that matters." I had an encounter several years ago with a welder who worked for a mining company in Utah. He told me that he kept asking the company to let him do more. They refused. I suggested that he look outside of his job for those opportunities. That he should go to the local community college and learn metal fabrication and start to create works of art. His smile showed me that the idea really appeal to him. Thanks for your good work.
Very happy to see your dynamic approach/framework being referenced.
Your interview with Brian Lamb on Booknotes about TFAIE was one of the seminal moments in my adult education journey.