Venture capitalist Peter Thiel to be Trump delegate
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For me, Thiel is a healthy reminder of the dangers of being a very smart person, who knows a lot about one thing and has been successful with that one thing, but then thinks that means you know a lot about everything.
I'm thinking of three things in particular: 1) his childish libertarian fantasy, 2) his surprisingly narrow worldview of education, and 3) his experience with Clarion Capital, where he went to NY and promptly got his ass handed to him.
So anyways, while most articles I see about him induce a bit of eye-rolling, he does remind me stay vigilant to seeking out blind spots in my own decision-making.
Also in terms of intelligence, getting a lot of money early in life and then making lots of small time investments in a lot of companies and having them turn into unicorns is not necessarily signs that you are super intelligent. You can just as likely just be lucky, and it be a case of survivor-ship bias.
I think Thiel has a broad worldview of education by rejecting the notion that education is exclusively done in colleges and universities. Whether it's smart to encourage people to drop out is another issue, but I do agree that the traditional educational system can be rather constricting to those with very high intellect and ambition.