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Very interesting talk. I'd love for him to write a history of capitalism type book. "The History of Innovation and Globalization". Start it off with the x-axis=
by kriro 10y ago
Very interesting talk. I'd love for him to write a history of capitalism type book. "The History of Innovation and Globalization". Start it off with the x-axis=globalization and y-axis=innovation model and go from say 18th century to now. I always enjoy history of economics books. I like the mainstream books but really enjoyed the perspective and research that went into "An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought". I am not aware of any good history type books from a more pragmatic business oriented point of view. Thiel has some interesting insights and perspectives.
Unfortunately that book probably wouldn't be a good use of his time but come on Peter, I know you want to write it :)
- mseebach 10y agoZero to One actually has some good material in this vein.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoThe book does, and is well worth the reading time. I have Zero to One as an audio book and I am on my second way through it. The concept that zero to one is much more valuable than one to ten helped me understand my own career better. I have always been a risk taker and even though some of my work projects over the last 30 years have failed, my bosses never seemed unhappy with me. I would usually really nail a few new ideas a year. This book helped me to understand why I seemed to get perks (like ocean view window offices at two consequative companies) that none of the other programmers got, even though they seemed to be much steadier workers than I was.
- return0 10y agoI think it would be a biased history book. He has strong opinions and that would not apply well to history.
- jk4930 10y agoYou might like "The Birth of Plenty", the first chapter is online: http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/404/CH1.HTM http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/404/CH1.HTM It's not the pragmatic business POV, but it has some highly interesting considerations.