the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to … - Peter Thiel

If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.

Una buena estrategia empresarial de ventas empieza siendo pequeña, como debe ser: un nuevo cliente puede estar de acuerdo en convertirse en tu mejor cliente, pero rara vez estará a gusto firmando un acuerdo completamente fuera de escala con respecto a lo que has vendido anteriormente.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.