things rich people do not want you to know: they live like 10% more than average - Auren Hoffman

Even five years ago, very few companies were equipped to leverage external data. Most companies still did not analyze their own data!

But as companies get better and better at finding insights in their internal data, they will look externally for data more and more.

best answer to rote interview question:
“my greatest weakness is having to to point out that the question, “what is your greatest weakness?”, is a bad question. like what were you actually trying to accomplish with this question? have you gotten any real insightful answers?”

one simple way to measure the health of a society: track the % of people that have a good relationship with their parents
(the higher the better ... though Laffer curve here too if we ever hit it)