Bugra Celik

“One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“In the solution economy, the winning approach is to capitalize on your role in a broader ecosystem. If a problem exists, the answer is to create an environment in which the solution can organically, sustainably, profitably be brought to bear—even if there is no market demand in the traditional sense. Sound impossible? Well, that’s exactly what Unilever did in India to address a critical public sanitation problem. How the company did it demonstrates the role that ecosystems play in the solution revolution.”
― William D. Eggers, The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems

“Which means that when designing their self-driving car, Toyota or Tesla will be transforming a theoretical problem in the philosophy of ethics into a practical problem of engineering”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“In our Berkeley class, we required each team to conduct at least ten interviews a week, to learn from real customers and stakeholders.”
― Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good