to truly solve society's problems, we need to open up more data. this is especially true in the medical and health world -- more data has the poten… - Auren Hoffman

disavow anything you don't like about your past self. you are barely related to you from 10 years ago (it is like a cousin that looks a lot like you)

The most important thing about data, which people often forget, is that it has to be true.
Truth beats everything.

You can’t build a good model with data that is just 65% accurate

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.