In many ways one way related to this book is that in physics and software and the hard sciences it was obvious and expected that people were eager for innovation. In social science there appeared to be a lot of really big powerful innovations that had great potential but we almost never apply them, he says. He also worked some number of years at NASA how has this affected how you approach economics and social science.

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