Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (February 2, 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: Mr. Wolfram do you like video games? If so, what games do you play? - What do you plan to achieve by the end of 2022? - Is there a way to gauge how good your own business/product ideas are when you have limited external feedback available? - Stephen, with access to the internet, having access to knowledge is not a problem, but humans absorb knowledge very slowly. How can we optimize the use of the knowledge we have access to? - ​How do you manage to keep up with a project after the most challenging parts are complete? Sounds silly, but to me, I loose the interest after I crack its core. - ​If you were starting a tech company today outside of the US, where would you start it? - Why doesn't Stephen have an American accent after living in the US for so long? - On innovations and in fact thinking in general: What analogies/mental models do you find most useful? - Do you think 4 day workweek is a good idea? Feels like it's defacto becoming so post-pandemic. - How to approach my boss, so he makes the decision, that I believe is good for the company? Is it good to insist or is it better to do it softly? - What has one to learn about business administration? what are useful learning resources? - Have you ever regretted leaving the academy? - How far out do you prep your day to day work? I'm starting to get the hang of studying routines but not organization of what there is to do lol