The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well.

John Steinbeck
East of Eden

 

Other than chasing down a wild pig, killing it a with a sharp stick, and it roasting it over a fire, no individual has ever produced anything worthwhile. Started or finished something, sure. Been essential to, of course. Jeff Bezos turned retail and shipping inside out, but it took a team of website developers, accountants, marketers, and other employees (the current count is 341,000). The Beatles came together with sound engineers, album artists, promoters, and distributors. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin with iron and steel that other people had mined, smelted, and shipped. Any start-to-finish product needs collaboration, and so does America.

Josh deLacy