Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 10 months ago
    I will be a panelist at an event at my university in mid-February that I will share once I get the Zoom site for it. I am going to explain why a contrarian view is necessary for innovation and invention.

    I plan on quoting Rand's line about inventors:

    “I was an inventor. I was one of a profession that came last in human history and will be first to vanish on the way back to the sub-human?”

    I could use Rand's other quote:

    “An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.”
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    • Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 9 months ago
      “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 9 months ago
        All of this is why I had Emmett "Doc" Brown playing in the background as I worked yesterday. Back to the Future is comedic inspiration for inventors like me.
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    • Posted by edweaver 3 years, 9 months ago
      I'm interested in this JB. Please do share when you have more details.
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 9 months ago
        I'm working on that talk. I just got slides coordinated with several faculty from other universities for a conference on the 4th and 5th called the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network tonight. For that I plan to debut my first prototype for my new company. Between then and the 13th, we expect to have 10 prototypes. Then we'll debut the UV LED disinfection prototypes at a festival for several thousand people on the 13th. The event you are asking about is on Thursday the 18th at 5:30, I think.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 3 years, 9 months ago
    First I've seen this.

    I don't put much value on making statements on the internet like "I'm John Galt". People aren't going to read that on the internet and go, "Oh, I see the light and will change my ways." I'm more in line with going Galt, withdrawing.
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  • Posted by $ BobCat 3 years, 10 months ago
    Some of us in the Gulch prefer to remain gray and blend into the background. The Producers just slip silently into the night ...
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