Tag: Thiel questions
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If government had NOT been murderous
Last week I wrote what might be the most important thing I ever wrote, and didn’t hit it hard enough. (I’m in a dull futile mood lately.) This item is my best and most crucial answer to the Thiel question: What’s something you know that nobody else agrees with? = = = = = START…
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More Thiel Questions
Thiel Questions are arguments or views that others don’t share. The last time I updated them was more than a year ago. Time to add a few more. I’ve written about each of these before but didn’t treat them as Thiel. = = = = = (1) Standard “history” tells us that we didn’t offshore…
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Reprint on complex money
I’ve been talking loosely about real money vs imaginary money. I made the point more directly two years ago: = = = = = START REPRINT: An old thought leads to a new ‘data visualization’. Old thought: This is one of my Thiel questions, one of the relatively unknown facts I’ve figured out by reading…
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Man vs machine reprint
Reading the endless (sometimes valid) commentary about AI and lost skills, remembered that I had hit the subject from an unconventional angle in 2014. This probably belongs in the Thiel Question category. It certainly deserves a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Heard a PSA from a union-based group trying to restore full…
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Clarifying thought
Not related to anything current, just a clarifying thought, a new angle on a familiar subject. One of my Thiel Questions is: If you want to leave a legacy, don’t copyright your work. This runs counter to everything you normally read about copyright. Clarifier: Everything you normally read is based on the faulty assumption that…
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Everything is needed and used
I’m halfway tempted to place this under Thiel questions because it seems so obvious and so completely unrecognized. Maybe it’s more recognized than I think, but I sure as hell don’t see it in the usual “science” websites and newsfeeds and forums. Writing and reading are hard-wired parts of the human brain, just like speaking…
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Statusotopic mapping?
If we start from my unconventional thought that secrecy is the default, what happens? If we treat this as the baseline assumption, what about “innovation” and “robust debate”? First some clarification. I’m talking about secrecy and language within a family or tribe or guild, not secrecy between all individuals. Language forms the circle and keeps…
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Focusing on one question…
One of the Thiel questions in previous item is: 8. Normal people want security. Criminals want freedom. The standard line, of course, misquotes Ben Franklin. Ben didn’t say it; an author published by Ben’s printery said it. The question deserves renewed attention in the “virus” era. The “alternative” spokesmen, some of whom may be Agents…
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Updating the Thiel questions
Updating the list of Thiel questions again. Sorting into categories and adding two new ‘exclusives’. The strict question as originally stated: How would you respond if PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel asked you his favorite interview question: “Tell me something that’s true that almost nobody agrees with you on.” My sloppy variation is more like true…
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Compiling the Thiel questions
Since I’m restarting on this (HOPEFULLY safer) new platform, it’s time to gather up some loose ends into more solid and consistent lists. The Thiel Question generated several overlapping sub-lists in the last few years. Here’s a condensed and combined list. First the question itself, and my variation on it. How would you respond if…
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