Here is the PDF of my chapter “How Can We Make Entrepreneurs?”, which was published in Shawn Klein’s edited volume Steve Jobs and Philosophy (Open Court, 2015), pp. 53-66.
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My chapter begins by noting Steve Jobs’s troubles within the formal school system:
“As a kid, Steve Jobs hated school. Many of us can relate, even if we are not brilliant business innovators. School bored the young Jobs painfully, and he reacted by engaging in acts of disobedience and defiance. ‘I was pretty bored in school,’ he remembers, ‘and I turned into a little terror.’ As a result, he was expelled from the third grade. Later, he loathed his junior high school, and one day he simply refused to go back. So adamant was the adolescent Jobs that his parents moved to another California town in hopes of finding a better fit.
“The adult Jobs became one of the outstanding entrepreneurs of his generation. But his school experiences raise a question: Did Steve Jobs fail to adapt himself to the system, or did the school system fail to fit Steve Jobs?”
And here is the full list of articles.
Table of Contents:
I. The Crazy One
1. The Reality Distortion Field of Steve Jobs by James Edwin Mahon
2. Counter-Culture Capitalist by Carrie-Ann Biondi
3. The Anti-Social Creator by Terry W. Noel
4. What Pixar Taught Millennials about Personhood by Kyle Munkittrick
II. The Troublemaker
5. How Can We Make Entrepreneurs by Stephen R. C. Hicks
6. The Visionary Entrepreneur by Robert F. Salvino
7. But Steve Jobs Didn’t Invent Anything! by Ryan Krause and Owen Parker
8. What Does Market Success Show? by William R Thomas
III. The Rebel
9. Marley and Steve by Jason Walker
10. The Noble Truths of Steve Jobs by Shawn E. Klein and Danielle Fundora
11. Two Sides of Think Different by Robert White
12. The Moral Perfectionist by Jared Meyer
13. Does Apple Know Right from Wrong? by Jason Iuliano
IV. The Misfit
14. Close Your Eyes, Hold Your Breath, Jump In by Paul Pardi
15. Does Steve Jobs Live and Work for You? by Alexander R. Cohen
16. Jobs and Heidegger Square Off on Technology by Christopher Ketcham
17. Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication by Dennis Knepp
Here’s the Amazon link to check out the book further.