WORKING WITH A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS: PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS I always feel like w

WORKING WITH A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS: PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS

I always feel like working in both worlds – analytic philosophy and business – has been a liability in some respects, and an asset in others.

To some degree people discount both because you’re not limiting yourself to one or the other – although it certainly worked for most of the better thinkers in history to do both.

So my career consists of people in business telling me I belong in a university, and people in academia telling me I am an entrepreneur. Frankly I belong right where I am – doing both. ‘Cause that is what makes me happy.

But if I am remembered at all, it will be for my philosophy – not for the ten or so businesses I have built so far; each one of which was an experiment in social science.

Although after Propertarianism and Testimonialism it is more likely that I will be thought of as a philosopher first, and an entrepreneur second. I suspect it will help my entrepreneurial efforts, despite its controversy.