Fortune’s Path: the Blog

Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.

Altruism, Capitalism Tom Noser Altruism, Capitalism Tom Noser

Benevolent Capitalists

Effective Altruism (EA), a trendy topic among technologists, advocates removing personal passions from giving decisions and relying on pure logic. We thought it would be interesting to look at the benevolent capitalists of the past and present to see how their excess capital shapes the world.

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Robert Carroll: Interface Design and Asking, "What do you want to achieve?"

Robert Carroll, leader of award winning product and marketing teams and a successful entrepreneur, talks about the differences between managing physical products and software, interface design, and why it's important to know what you want to achieve when you start a business, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.

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Chris Gann: Only Fools are Certain

Chris Gann, Vice President of Product for HealthStream, believes it's better to be skeptical than confident, but customers demand confidence. Chris's long history of working in innovation and technology has taught him the core of product management is knowing you don't know, working to get smarter, and always remaining open-minded.

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Is UBI the next frontier in the battle over the American welfare state?

American politics is divided by competing answers to one fundamental question: what are the government’s responsibilities to its citizens?

The Founders agreed that citizens had certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that government maintained its moral authority only if it protected these rights. Their agreements stopped there.

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