The Way Forward Is To Learn To

When Blame Inevitably Arises, The Most Senior People In The Room Should Repeat This Mantra: If A Mistake Happens, Shame On Us For Making It So Easy To Make That Mistake.

In My First Start-up, I Had An Initial Advertising Budget Of $5 Per Day Total. That Would Buy Us 100 Clicks Per Day. At $5 Per Day, Marketing People Scoffed And Said That Is Too Small To Matter. But If You Think About It, To An Engineer, 100 Real Humans Everyday Giving Your Product A Try Means You Can Really Start Improving.

Meritocracy Is A Good Thing. Whenever Possibly, People Should Be Judged Based On Their Work And Results, Not Superficial Qualities.

Better To Have Bad News That's True Than Good News We Made Up

Nowadays People Talk About Paypal's Founders As Prescient Geniuses Who Would Inevitably Change The World. It Was, However, Not So Obvious That Paypal Would Taste Its First Major Success By Helping People Sell Beanie Babies On Ebay. But They Had A Vision, A Hope, And The Perseverance To Try Multiple Iterations Until They Got It Right.