"Some Thoughts on Peter Thiel’s New Book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future"

We noted it was coming back in 2013's "Elon Musk Frenemy Peter Thiel is writing another book!".
From PJ Media:

Is a Great Company a Conspiracy to Change the World?

I thought about this as I read Peter Thiel’s new book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. The book description is as follows:

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself....MORE

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See also Peter Thiel and:
Founders Fund
Mithril Capital
Valar Ventures
Clarium Capital

And at Founders Fund the mini-manifesto:
What Happened to the Future?:
We Wanted Flying Cars and Got 140 Characters