will this business still be around a decade from now? Numbers alone won’t tell you the answer; instead you must think critically about the qualitativ… - Peter Thiel

you must think critically about the qualitative characteristics of your business.

Computers already have enough power to outperform people in activities we used to think of as distinctively human. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Jeopardy!’s best-ever contestant, Ken Jennings, succumbed to IBM’s Watson in 2011. And Google’s self-driving cars are already on California roads today. Dale Earnhardt Jr. needn’t feel threatened by them, but the Guardian worries (on behalf of the millions of chauffeurs and cabbies in the world) that self-driving cars “could drive the next wave of unemployment.

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work

By definition, a secret hasn’t been vetted by the mainstream.