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Why Rising From the Ashes Is Vital for Disruption, InnovationGood (almost) always follows bad.

ByAmy Cosper

This story appears in theMay 2016issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Amy Cosper

"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
—Anne Sullivan

Right now Silicon Valley is hoarding outsize credit for innovation and disruption of the status quo. I call B.S. Innovation and disruption have gone on for eons, and they're driven by something so obvious that we rarely talk about it: the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of life-crushing odds. It's called survival, and through it, we innovate our way out of the abyss.

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