{"id":3374,"date":"2010-04-05T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2010-04-05T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:29:14","slug":"start-ups-not-bailouts-thomas-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/05\/start-ups-not-bailouts-thomas-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-ups, not bailouts &#8212; Thomas Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/opinion\/04friedman.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Start-ups, not bailouts<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; Thomas Friedman, NY Times<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What is worrisome about America today is the combination of cutbacks  in higher education, restrictions on immigration and a toxic public  space that dissuades talented people from going into government.  Together, all of these trends are slowly eating away at our  differentiated edge in attracting and enabling the world\u2019s biggest mass  of smart, creative risk-takers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It isn\u2019t drastic, but it is a  decline  \u2014  at a time when technology is allowing other countries to  leverage and empower more of their own high-I.Q. risk-takers. If we  don\u2019t reverse this trend, over time, \u201cwe could lose our most important  competitive edge  \u2014  the only edge from which sustainable advantage  accrues\u201d  \u2014  having the world\u2019s biggest and most diverse pool of  high-I.Q. risk-takers, said Mundie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We need health care, financial reform and education reform. But we also  need to be thinking just as seriously and urgently about what are the  ingredients that <strong>foster entrepreneurship<\/strong><em> (emphasis DSC)<\/em><strong> <\/strong>\u2014 how new businesses are  catalyzed, inspired and enabled and how we enlist more people to do that   \u2014  so no one ever says about America what that officer says to Tom  Cruise in \u201cTop Gun\u201d: \u201cSon, your ego\u2019s writing checks your body can\u2019t  cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nCurriculum-wise, assignment-wise, project-wise&#8230;what are those things that we can integrate into our courses that can help students be more creative in their thinking, better problem-solvers, and the type of students who don&#8217;t need to be spoon fed with every last detail of the assignment?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-ups, not bailouts &#8212; Thomas Friedman, NY Times What is worrisome about America today is the combination of cutbacks in higher education, restrictions on immigration and a toxic public space that dissuades talented people from going into government. Together, all of these trends are slowly eating away at our differentiated edge in attracting and enabling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,3],"tags":[566],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-higher-education","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}