One of Palantir’s secrets in the Zero to One sense of the word has been the FDE. We were criticized for a very long time for this approach to building and delivering software. This criticism was annoying in the moment but in a full accounting quite valuable for Palantir. The criticism created a chilling effect and resulting conformity in how... See more

I feel like for these complex problems, it's basically impossible to design a framework de novo. And people try this all the time, but it very rarely works. Instead, what happens is you have an application that works well, and then basically you copy and paste that two or three times, and then you look at the diffs, and the things that aren't the... See more

Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve... See more