This strikes me as a transcendent work. It's one of those amazing artifacts in which the structure reinforces the special insight of the subject matter. I'm re

This strikes me as a transcendent work. It's one of those amazing artifacts in which the structure reinforces the special insight of the subject matter. I'm referring to the sort of fractal way in which each nested story builds the theme through repetition, but also reflects the story in which it's nested, in the same appropriately meta-textual way as all my favorite works of literature, like the Iliad and Infinite Jest. That is, each structural level of the talk points to a higher rung on the ladder of abstraction. And the talk itself, while on its face is about disruption and business practices, keeps pointing up the ladder. At each level it constructs a more abstract narrative that provides insight into what is really happening. Disruption happens because businesses measure the wrong things. But they measure the wrong things because they haven't built the apparatus to figure out what to measure. And they haven't built that apparatus because they don't even know that they should be. They work on received wisdom, they let the numbers do the thinking for them. Ultimately, it's a talk about the value of true critical thinking, of forming the correct narrative, and of stepping outside the bounds of the particular level of abstraction to see the same set of facts from different perspectives. As a literature major, this is a talk about the value of a liberal arts education.