I always think of disrupt from the perspective of creative destruction, and it always being unambiguously good. So if I was in a stagnant industry, I&#x27;d be trying to reform. And if I was getting hit hard by reformers, I&#x27;d see that as justice that I was on the wrong side of.<p>Hence, I&#x27;m tempted to say that both meanings mean the same thing to me.<p>But it&#x27;s interesting you raise it. I recently reread _A Second Chance at Eden_ by Peter F Hamilton. In one of the stories, a character turns down an opportunity at fabulous wealth from a mindset that it would cause vast social trauma. This seeded a thought - perhaps creative destruction is not as unambiguously good as I presume. But it still hasn&#x27;t yet sunk in. (And such a correction would require a worldview rebuild - a trauma of its own :) )