As he does every day, he walked to work. “I never learned to drive because I was busy reading, doing things, and talking to people,” he says. “And I’m coordinat

As he does every day, he walked to work. “I never learned to drive because I was busy reading, doing things, and talking to people,” he says. “And I’m coordinated enough to bike, but the problem is that I will start dreaming about the business and run into a tree.” I love CEO anecdotes like this: too busy to learn to drive, but not too busy to learn to ride a bike? Palantir also has a permission system to make sure that workers in agencies using its software can access only the data that their clearance levels allow. “In the pre-Palantir days, analysts could go into file cabinets and read whatever they want,” says former NCTC director Leiter. “Nobody had any idea what they had seen.” It's amazing how the former NCTC director, who is now a lobbyist for this company, seems to be unaware of the simple method of placing locks on file cabinets and/or secretaries that log who has checked out which files - methods I am sure intelligence agencies in the US have had since their founding.