the most predictive metric to predict someone's success is the number of hours they work hard - Auren Hoffman

EQ is SUPER important if you want to climb the corporate ladder.
EQ is much less important if you want to found a company.

Your data will be much more valuable if you enable it to be joined with other datasets (even if you make no money off the other datasets). This is the #1 thing that most people who work at data companies do not understand.

focus on being long-term nice over short-term nice.
it feels good to be nice.
Every parent loves to see their child smile over a bowl of ice cream… but you’d never let your kids eat ice cream all the time.