Everything man does creates more harm than good. We have to accept that fact and not delude ourselves into thinking something is sustainable.
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Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014
Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Matthew Hall, Guardian interview, The Guardian, 9 April 2019 source ↗
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Without that structure, I ended up feeling overwhelmed.
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