Before Jobs, Musk, Hewlett & Packard, or Ford...there were The Wright Brothers

We live today in what many consider the age of technology. Everyday there are new apps, new ways in which incumbency is disrupted. But very few of the creators or inventors of today, understand the long view, or the way they are changing the world.

Steve Jobs understood. Elon Musk understands. Maybe even Mark Zuckerberg does. Part of that understanding come from education. From seeing the world beyond themselves and their work, and seeing their place in world.

During another fertile period of innovation in America, as we moved from the 19th to the 20th Century, the same was true. Sitting high atop the pantheon of those that would seek to change the world then, were Wilbur and Orville Wright. With the support of their family, their bicycle shop was perhaps the ultimate tech startup of the time.

Wilbur and Orville Wright and their family are subject of a new biography The Wright Brothers, by multiple award winning historian David McCullough.

My conversation with David McCullough:

You Are Not Special

This is the season in which high school seniors start receiving college admissions, and begin the run up to High School graduation. Given that gallons and gallons of self esteem have been poured into these kids, every one of them thinks that they are special. David McCullough, Jr has a bit of a different idea. Those ideas were a part of a High School commencement speech that he gave back in 2012. The YouTube of that speech has been viewed over two and a half million times.

David McCullough, Jr. has now turned that speech into You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements

My conversation with David McCullough, Jr.