OVERLAP · 7 SHARED BOOKs
Books both Patrick Collison and Peter Thiel recommend
Patrick Collison and Peter Thiel both positively recommend these books.
Shared positive books
7 BOOKs-
[001]
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg
Politics
Peter ThielSource note
Wrote a preface for the 2020 edition.
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[002]
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Business
Patrick Collison“Correctly places enormous value on execution and on culture”
Cited from Patrick Collison's personal bookshelf page.
Peter Thiel“Hamilton Helmer understands that strategy starts with invention...”
Thiel's endorsement ('Hamilton Helmer understands that strategy starts with invention') is a listed blurb on the book's Amazon page.
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[003]
Cryptonomicon
Sci-Fi
Peter Thielrecommentions.com · Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
“Cryptonomicon was required reading.”
Recommentions indexes the Zero to One passage where Thiel says the early PayPal team treated Stephenson's novel as required reading.
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[004]
The Master and Margarita
Fiction
Peter Thielconversationswithtyler.com · Peter Thiel
Recommended in the cited source.
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[005]
The American Challenge
Politics
Peter ThielThe page cites Thiel's Reddit AMA, where he listed The American Challenge among favorites.
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[006]
The New Atlantis
Philosophy
Peter ThielThe page cites Thiel's Reddit AMA, where he listed The New Atlantis among favorites.
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[007]
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Philosophy
Peter Thiel“We [followers of Girard], had sort of a sense that we had figured out the truth about the world in a way that nobody else did.”
The page cites a YouTube video timestamp where Thiel discusses Girard's book.