signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you shou… - Peter Thiel

Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Talented people don’t need to work for you; they have plenty of options. You should ask yourself a more pointed version of the question: Why would someone join your company as its 20th engineer when she could go work at Google for more money and more prestige?

people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious