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Here's a fascinating answer to "Is Peter Thiel Very Smart?" from @RyanHoliday.
I love this line: “The things that I think I’m right about other people are in some sense not even wrong about, because they’re not thinking about them.”
Here are my favorite quotes.
I love this line: “The things that I think I’m right about other people are in some sense not even wrong about, because they’re not thinking about them.”
Here are my favorite quotes.
This is a beautiful way to think about thinking.
“Peter is of two minds on everything. If you were able to open his skull, you would see a number of Mexican standoffs between powerful antagonistic ideas you wouldn’t think could be safely housed in the same brain.”
“Peter is of two minds on everything. If you were able to open his skull, you would see a number of Mexican standoffs between powerful antagonistic ideas you wouldn’t think could be safely housed in the same brain.”
"Thiel is extremely well-read and again, tends to focus on talking about and thinking about deep, obscure topics rather than superficial, trivial matters."
Here's the original article. https://www.quora.com/Is-Peter-Thiel-very-smart
Here's the original article. https://www.quora.com/Is-Peter-Thiel-very-smart
"When I mentioned an obscure chapter in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, Thiel could cite it from memory and discuss at length... Thiel is extremely well-read and again, tends to focus on talking about and thinking about deep, obscure topics rather than superficial matters."
