Every universityโฆseem[s] to reassure you that โit doesnโt matter what you do, as long as you do it well.โ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something youโre good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
Peter ThielIn the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
Peter ThielAmerican government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.
Peter ThielHigher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Peter Thiel