Here’s how the math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you’ll decline nearly down to zero. What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more.

s that because of where they live, or because they tend to be better educated and are less likely to be white than countryfolk?

If you do what everyone else is doing, you shouldn’t be surprised to get the same results everyone else is getting.

It is an ironic truth that no nonrenewable resource has ever run dry

Stupidity is easier to see in others than ourselves

Investors prefer established companies with secure short-term returns.

It’s one reason why the careers of Nobel Prize winners tend to go downhill after receiving the award. It becomes too lucrative for them to devote their time to the media, giving talks or writing books. Producing more original research falls by the wayside.

There are no price targets, no return targets, no staking my results on a given outcome for a given company

I think “accomplishments” are traps. Accomplishments, by their very definition, exist only in the past or future—which are not even real things.

The main reason startups fail is because the idea didn’t work, often because it never scaled. They didn’t grow fast enough.

These are extreme example. But there’s evidence that startups are taking more money than they need to succeed, usually in the name of funding bigger, faster, growth.

Charlie and I always knew that you would become incredibly wealthy. And he said, we were not in a hurry to get wealthy; we knew it would happen. He said, Rick was just as smart as us, but he was in a hurry.

The company decided to "obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math" by quietly retiring the erroneous metrics and replacing them with corrected metrics under a new name. For instance, Average Duration of Video Viewed would be replaced with Average Watch Time.

Google declined to say what financial impact the changes would have, and said the fee was needed to make up for any loss in advertising revenue.

“We don’t believe we should remove things from Facebook that are shared by authentic people if they don’t violate those community standards, even if they are false,” said Tessa Lyons, product manager for Facebook’s News Feed feature that shows users what friends are sharing.

Katja Grace from Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute led the team that gathered responses from 352 academics and industry experts in machine learning. Then they calculated the median responses to come up with some concrete numbers.

The bottom line is that the species needs Tesla to sell 200,000 cars this year, 400,000 cars next year, and as soon as possible, millions of vehicles annually.

This makes Tesla an anchor brand and, regrettably for the company's naysayers, something of an indispensable company.

“consumes about 34 gigabytes across varied devices each day”

people romanticize their own effectiveness

Facebook’s essentially a one-person company and I find Zuckerberg to be a bit of a cipher sometimes.

Facebook and Google are the only two big tech companies that are unable to diversify their profit centers. They’re addicted to their stupid business model in the same way that a petro state is addicted to oil.

It actually somehow talked the SEC into creating this other category, where it would be valued based simply on how much it was used, just on user engagement.

It is being paid for by customers — but the customers are not the people who are actually doing the thing. They are these other people who decide, called advertisers — or I prefer to call them manipulators, because they have been sold on the idea that they’re not just advertising. They’re not just getting a message in front of you, but are part of a mathematical scheme that will predictably addict you and then modify your behavior.