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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.
John Purcell, Ten Terrifying Questions, The Booktopian, 6 February 2012 source ↗
Because there are so many business we do across the boundaries. So, I think this is the only way a Japanese service company can really, truly become the global organization.
Specialisation leads to extinction. We are learning more and more but about less and less, and one day we will know everything about nothing. There is nothing wrong with being a populist. It does not have to mean dumbing down, as people think.
There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.
It’s killing the planet. It’s killing you. It’s killing all of us. Walk away.
I'd take a course in bread-making and open a small bakery.
Trying to kiss someone who wasn't interested.
Pulping books.
Be ambitious beyond merely dreaming of the first book being published. Already now try to imagine where you want this to go, where you want to be at 60.
The architect Peter Zumthor, for the baths at Vals in Switzerland.
Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida'.
Richard Ford, David Hare, Alan Cumming, Adam Zagajewski, adrienne maree brown, David Lynch
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