Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department
Holy shit. This is some absolutely astonishing levels of idiocy. Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop.<p>I know this because it was something that became apparent to me when I was a young CTO. Any fully-qualified person, with experience, in their 40s-50s will not take enormous amounts of shit without throwing it right back. Younger, less experienced folks, will not jeopardize their "opportunity" and instead will shovel the shit down the latter. Young people will not push back and instead will seek to make their "sponsor" happy.<p>While it once hurt my ego to say it, I've come to terms with it, talent has shit all to do with opportunity, most of it is, if not all, is luck.