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Writings, podcasts, and books do not always have readily packaged solutions. But they do serve a purpose. In the book Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis writes about a fictional philosopher, Zorba, who goes into a fit of rage, challenges a scholar, demanding “What is the use of all your damn books if they don't give me answers, what do they do?” To which the scholar replies, “They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions.”

And so this book speaks to the unspoken agony. Entrepreneurs, shrinks, or shamans cannot answer the question of what precisely leads to depression. Yet when the entrepreneur suffers, innovation suffers. Progress in society suffers. Capital has no place to park itself, for its growth is tied to the growth of these crazy ones. We cheer on and love it when the founders go to war, emerge victorious. But when they fail, we simply look the other way. We do not have ways to care and nurture for the wounded warriors. We move on. Sorry but we don't quite know what to do with you, we might say. By casting them aside when they break, we do a great disservice to those who attempted to serve us. Yes, we should care for progress, but we should also care for the harbingers of its progress, in sickness and in health.