Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about… - Peter Thiel

the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places,

successful people find value in unexpected places,

progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work — going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things — going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress

Desde el Renacimiento y la Ilustración hasta mediados del siglo XX,

One of our engineers actually designed a bomb for this purpose; when he presented the schematic at a team meeting, calmer heads prevailed and the proposal was attributed to extreme sleep deprivation.