The Human Side of Innovation

CONCLUSION

DESIGNING HAPPINESS

In all these years of work and study, in universities, start-ups, and corporations, I’ve always had the same dream: making something that touches people’s lives, generating a positive impact on the world. It’s a goal that I had as a child. I wanted to create something that human beings need, that people want, that in some way would provide them with some form of value. It could be an idea, a product, an experience. I didn’t know it back then, and I didn’t realize it for a long time, but what I was looking for was actually that sort of immortality that the production of meaningful value for people surrounding you, and for society as a whole, can give you. It’s a desire, a necessity, an instinct that in and of itself ...