onestojan

Funny enough Thiel is a Tolkien fan which can be seen in his companies names: Palantir, Lembas LLC, Rivendell One LLC, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital Management.

Pretty simple right? But let's not confuse simple with easy.

Reminds me of Carl von Clausewitz:

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

Hey Ryan, since Machiavelli said that conspiracies are weapons of the people, why do you think there are so few of them today?

How are you so prolific? What systems/routines had the most impact on your life?

I'm halfway through the book and loving it!

Ok, this is getting spooky, but Thiel wrote a very good book "Zero to One" which is about startups ideas, economy etc ;) if you enjoy contrarian thinking, libertarianism then I'd recommend getting to know him.

Edit: BTW you can read awesome notes from the lecture on which his book is based for free.