Dear Entrepreneurs,
The Real Meaning of Independence
While it is very much in vogue these days to think about independence purely in self-interested ego terms, such as “being, having, doing whatever I want on my terms,” I think this is a very narrow – and insufficient meaning of the word.
During this past week I was in New York City. I spent four hours at new exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum that contained photographs and paintings from the Civil War Era, circa 1859 to 1877.