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Life themes: Don't Die, Efficiency, Techno-Optimism, American Dynamism
Works I've sent to other people after reading:
Founder's Fund I-IV by The Generalist
The New World by Jeremy Stern (Colossus Thrive Article)
The New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon
Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection by Geoff Shullenberger
Review of the Black Swan by David Aldous
The End of History by Francis Fukuyama
A World Split Apart - Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address Harvard University
Eating Disorders And Mimetic Desire by René Girard
Physical Intelligence Blog Posts (Up to Oct 2025)
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Straussian Moment by Peter Thiel
Building an American TSMC by Maxx Yung