A batch of the best highlights from what Edwin's read, .
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.
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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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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.