“In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.” WorldWayMeanGrowthSituationProgressTechnologicalBetter OffTechnological Progress Author:Peter Thiel
“I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantDifferentTwentiesSubtle Author:Peter Thiel
“Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’” PeopleWayStoriesRunningUsedFunWalksTechnologyFivePlanetsMoonMy FriendsTwentiesKillingLike MeIslamicSci FiHuntingRobotsGalaxyTwenty FiveFundamentalistAnthology Author:Peter Thiel
“But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldLooksHas BeensImportantIdeasSchoolWalksPowerfulStandardsHigh SchoolArgumentMake SenseStatisticsBellsDominantProbabilityCurvesWay Of ThinkingCalculus Author:Peter Thiel
“Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.” WayDifferentMomentsStoriesHappensCompanySuccessfulFiguresUniqueTasksSuccessful Company Author:Peter Thiel
“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.” IfsWayProblemCareTechnologyParticularUniqueSolutionsCompetitionSolveCustomersStuckSuperiorsVicious Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
