Experiment
Who Sold Us This Idea?
I'm a big fan of the director Adam Curtis. The question running through all of his documentary films for the BBC is “Who sold us this idea?”
I've worked in innovation management for eleven and a half years, with roughly 250 companies, helping them collect and track ideas.
Ideas
- The Long Manifesto: following the ideas of MarxismHow did a 23-page pamphlet written in London end up ruling 25 countries, and then only five?In research
- CEO payWhy do CEOs make 325 times what a typical worker makes?Draft
- Pensions and the 401(k)In 1975 seven in ten workers in a retirement plan earned a pension. Now it's one in ten. Who sold us the 401(k)?In research
- Campaign Finance SuperpacsHow did "money is speech" go from a 1971 think tank paper to $16 billion elections?In research
- The food pyramidHow did fat become the enemy, who sold it, and how fat did the country get after?In research