Ideas or Reality: Which comes first?

Ideas have the power to shape the world.

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How often do you question ideas?

And I mean big ideas, the kind exalted by startups and thought leaders.

I asked myself this question as I perched on a black metal chair at one of my favorite local restaurants.

I’d been reading the book Why We Work by Barry Schwartz over my margarita pizza and basket of plain fries. (I know, I know. Not the epitome of hea…