Unreasonably Reasonable

In order to destroy the wrath of the Joker, Gotham City called on the Batman to use his prowess to defeat the mad lunatic. In order to defeat the malicious Dr. Von Doom, the world united as one and stood behind the Fantastic Four to help them defeat the mogul millionaire. And today, in order to overcome the overbearing obstacles placed on society by corrupt politicians and war criminals, the world will look to one force and one force only to help it prevail: and that force is the Unreasonable Institute.

I had the chance to sit down with Kevin Miller, a Senior majoring in entrepreneurship at NC State as well as recent graduate of the Unreasonable Institute, over breakfast to discuss his experience at the institute. Kevin, a recipient of the Caldwell Fellow Scholarship, interned at the Institute this summer and gave me the scoop about his experience. After spending two months at the Unreasonable Institue in Boulder, Colorado this past summer, Kevin left with not only a burden on his shoulder to one day solve a major problem that the world is currently facing, but he also left with a set of skills and advice that he hopes to pass on to you, the lonesome reader. Kevin describes the 25 entrepreneurs at the institute as “religious”. He doesn’t mean the traditional definition of religious, rather he means that they stick and adhere to a “set of values” and seldom do they break from them. He says that keeps them all on the same page, and it keeps everyone “driven by the same thing”. The institute is notorious for pairing the most uncommon entrepreneurs and thinkers together in order to elicit an uncommon relationship, which ends up being a relationship like no other. Kevin urges his colleagues to just “do it”. “What experiment is more worth doing than what you really want to do” he comments as he scarfs down the last bit of his mushroom omelet. Kevin hopes to one day make guitar and camera straps out of recycled plastic bags from the streets of India.

The investors, entrepreneurs, interns, and mentors at the Unreasonable Institute may not all wear capes and have a giant “S” imprinted on their chests, but they are a dedicated group of individuals that are dedicated to changing the world as we know it. Watch out Dr. Von Doom, because the Fantastic Four was the least of your worries compared to the Unreasonable Institute.

By: Ibrahim Zafar

Kevin Millers- TEDxNCSU Talk