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THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Not long after arriving at George Mason, Cowen read “Sexual Personae”by Camille Paglia, a buccaneering polemic about Western art across millennia. Although he didn’t agree with Paglia’s ideas, he saw this was the kind of book he wanted to write. Within months he was drafting a lively, popular history of markets and high culture. In 2003 he and Taba... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
TESLA: 7 FOR 7
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Tyler’s distribution strategy, application design, intellectual tastes, and influence on awardees all interplay to explain his success as a talent curator.
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
Tony then cites Tyler (on Tim Ferriss’s show) speaking as follows: “I try to stay a bit weird and obscure enough that mostly quite smart people are writing me. If I had too many not smart emails I would feel that I was doing something else wrong with what I’m writing.… The rate of good applications is reasonably high. Maybe I’m lowering it just by
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