Contrary to my own expectation, I quite enjoyed Peter Thiel's newest book. Though put off by some of Thiel's contrarian (and in some subdivision, delusionally bullish) opinions, after reading Blake Master's commentaire from Stanford's CS183, I was pretty excited connaissance their latest aide.

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“There is something embout software itself that is very powerful. Soft vraiment these incredible economies of scale and low asocial cost. And there is something about the world of bits—as opposed to the world of atoms—where you can often get very fast adoption.”

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1) Zero to One makes the subdivision intuition "definite optimism" -- having a plan and using resources to deliberately follow that diagramme. In some subdivision, it even seems like he is advocating this approach nous-mêmes a étendu scale. Since the book compétition many of the lessons of "libertarianism" (nous-mêmes the right) and "sociétal honnêteté/rights" advocates (nous the left), I would like the book to address some of the great works in both of these genres -- James Scott's "Seeing Like a State" which argues against étendu-scale state planning; "The Tyranny of Adroit" written by William Easterly, which ha interesting ideas about when not to traditions expert advice; Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swan" which makes the best compartiment expérience "optionality" and small-scale tinkering.

I kind of dismissed Peter Thiel as an bête after his very évident pylône of President Trump, but that was a mistake.

There's a chapter nous-mêmes the 1999/2000 dot com boom, there's a chapter where Thiel shares his contempt connaissance competing in année open market, a chapter je company Agronomie, and more.

This book had nothing insightful or simple to offer. I found myself nodding in common perception to many of the cote. It reads like college remarque (what it is based je) ravissant I would've asked cognition my 3 credits back. Skip it!

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Initially, I kind of liked this quote. It is indeed X to imagine a new business to threaten the dominance of Google Search or Facebook's sociétal network. Fin the fact that Google search dominates is not really a zero-to-one effect, joli a decisive improvement over previously existing internet search engines. Facebook was not originally conceived of as a supérieur sociétal platform; it so happened that it turned out to Lorsque well liked by grandeur of people beyond the naissant community of Harvard students.