For a century we have pointed at the wrong things and called them entrepreneurship. The word was captured by scale, by capital, by the language of corporations — and so the entrepreneur became a figure to distrust. This is a category error.
A person acts as a life entrepreneur not when they merely voice wishes, but when they take responsibility for the consequences of those wishes. It is a stance available to anyone — the parent, the teacher, the founder, the craftsman — long before any company exists.
It is not comfort, and not certainty. It is the willingness to meet reality as it is and still act.
Children play.
Adults create.
Entrepreneurship is the adult form of play.
This Manifest is a living document. Longer form to follow. — Christian Klingenberg