Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry.

An effective goal management system—an OKR system—links goals to a team’s broader mission. It respects targets and deadlines while adapting to circumstances. It promotes feedback and celebrates wins, large and small. Most importantly, it expands our limits.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus.

The end result has been the elimination of populous Native American societies from most temperate areas suitable for European food production and physiology.

This man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else.

CONFRONT COMPLEXITY WITH CLARITY

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Almost everything is noise, and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.

The key to minimizing risk lies in knowing what you don’t know and paying a fair price for not knowing.

If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we’ll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial harmony.