Vault: you don’t share confidential information, and don’t let others share confidential information about someone else with you.

It doesn't matter how good your engineering team is if they are not given something worthwhile to build.

Use meetings to get everyone on the same page, get to the right debate, and make decisions.

We look for validation in amplifying the downfalls of others and our success of ourselves. Self-deception makes us think of ourselves as the hero of every story, always looking for more ways to make our successes seem more significant.

If you want to be treated like a mother," I said, "you should act like one.

The first is that truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies.

The practice exists for writers and leaders, for teachers and painters. It’s grounded in the real world, a process that takes us where we hope to go.

Complex and frequent tasks – delegate. Tasks like project planning and system designs can be used to develop your team.

I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t feel ready to stop living.