The emotional journey of creating anything great requires crossing the dark swamp of despair.. Outsiders almost never see the crazy belief and persistence required to cross that chasm..

1) No they don’t. 2) No they don’t. 3) Yes they can. 4) No, they reduce SIDS by 50%. 5) No they don’t. 6) No they fucking don’t. 7) No they don’t except for fleetingly rare anaphylaxis. 8) No they don’t. 9) No they don’t. Vaccines cause adults.

In 1820, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. buff.ly/2EmJ676

Once you know the truth of Tom DeMarco's quote ("Few of us are in the high tech business. Most of us are in the human communications business."), you'll strive to excel at collaborating and communicating with people inside & outside your org. #modernagile

Google acquired Android 13 years ago today. Android smartphone marketshare worldwide: 2005: 0.5% 2018: 85.9%

Thank you Bill Gates. I've been dreaming for years to come up with a scalable, clean way to store large quantities of energy to make renewables available around the clock. I hope Energy Vault can make a big contribution to that goal.

When you need more reach than mainstream media....

Laura Behrens Wu Anywhere there’s a line, there’s an opportunity for a startup.

One of the best career hacks I know is to work for a CEO who already gets the value of your profession/function. It's far more rewarding to focus on doing your job than to continually explain and justify it.

Stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.

The enemies of people who work with ideas are not the people with the opposing ideas. They're those who want to ban the discussion altogether.

The difference between Knowledge and Experience.

Product 101: -there is no end or beginning -the sum of the makers experiences define what’s built (hence diversity) -customers never truly know what they want until it’s delivered -more features is not better—better is better -tell 1 story -embed the story inside the product

The at least 2,000 year old olive tree of Vouves,on the island of Crete,still bears olives. The tree stood here when Rome burned in AD64, and Pompeii was buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash in AD79. Cemeteries from the Geometric Period (900-700 BC) were discovered nearby.

Waaaaaaaaaaaait for it

The ratio of time you spend sweating to watching others sweat is a forward-looking indicator of your success. #nomercynomalice l2inc.com/daily-insights…

Shenzhen, China Top: 1990 Bottom: 2014 HT Peter Sandham

I think the ability to play gracefully with ideas is disappearing from our culture, and I think that's a terrible thing. - Sir Stephen Fry #munkdebate #politicalcorrectness

Incredible chart. Take mortality statistics & subtract infectious disease. You see: (a) in the twentieth century we largely defeated infectious disease in the US (arguably the biggest achievement of 20C); and (b) little else we did in medicine affected mortality. via Patrick Collison