Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 17, 2022)

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa

Questions include: I am writing a long-form article about James Lovelock, who was unusual in that he was an independent scientist. It struck me that you count as one too, and I wondered if you had ever blogged about the upside or downside of not being part of the scientific establishment? - ​What is the artifact behind you? It looks like something one might use to trap a mouse. ​- Have you ever focused "too much," such that the focus was detrimental to your work? - So you are on an island? I have been looking for an isolated island with limited tourists to spend some stress-free time. They are hard to find! - Any tips for building a remote software company, and how to maintain company culture when everyone is working from home? - From a business point of view, how do you make the jump to working on highly technical projects that have long development times and higher costs? - Hypothetically, if one had the opportunity and means to pursue a completely different avenue in life even though it was not one's formal field of study... Thoughts on big life changes? - Any interesting discussion of the history of the whaling business? - Sorry for a bit of a silly question, but you seem to like to use a light theme as opposed to a dark theme on your computer. Does it have any effect on your eyes in the long run? - How much time do you spend each day on your phone? - If you had to spend one year without computers, what would you do? - ​​I'm still waiting for phones that can do projection on the wall with a keyboard touchscreen with light detectors. - ​Did you learn anything useful during your brief time as a consultant? - If you could go back in time with your laptop running Mathematica, who would you show it to? Euler? Bernoulli? Newton? Others? - A discussion between Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing would be interesting. - You need to write this fiction, even if it's just blogged in chunks.