A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside. - Peter Thiel

The other buzzword that epitomizes a bias toward substitution is “big data.” Today’s companies have an insatiable appetite for data, mistakenly believing that more data always creates more value. But big data is usually dumb data. Computers can find patterns that elude humans, but they don’t know how to compare patterns from different sources or how to interpret complex behaviors. Actionable insights can only come from a human analyst (or the kind of generalized artificial intelligence that exists only in science fiction).

the more people believe in efficiency, the bigger the bubbles get.)

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