"spending time independently thinking is where all your alpha comes from" you are probably not delegating enough time to deep thought and distractio… - Auren Hoffman

“We are just too focused and too well aligned,” said no employee ever.

This is the #1 thing that most people who work at data companies do not understand. Most people think that they need to hoard the data. But the data increases in value if it can be combined with other interesting datasets. So you should do everything you can to help your customers combine your data with other data. One way to make data easy to combine is to purposely think about linking it — essentially creating a foreign key for other datasets.

the second-worst dinners are fundraisers and the WORST dinners are fancy auctions
— do everything possible to avoid those dinners