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For Palantir the problem statement is can you build a product that provides substantial technical leverage to solve the next problem we have never seen before.  The same software that allows a soldier to avoid IED’s has to stop blue-green attacks.  The same software that produces more oil has to enable building airplanes faster has to enable AI powered underwriting.  This is an excruciatingly difficult challenge.

Sorry, That Isn't an FDE

tedmabrey.substack.com

It was a eureka moment—this is how we can tell this version's story: it focuses on what matters most for how most people use Word.

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Martina Lauchengco

Similarly, the hard sciences are a solid foundation. Microeconomics is a solid foundation. The moment you start wandering outside of these solid foundations you’re in trouble because now you don’t know what’s true and what’s false. I would focus as much as I could on having solid foundations. It’s better to be really great at arithmetic and geometry than to be deep into advanced mathematics. I would read microeconomics all day long—Microeconomics 101.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

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