To construct a superior future, you should put stock in mysteries.
The great secret of our time is that there are still unexplored frontiers to be explored and new inventions made.
In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows
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how we can find unique ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the opposite premise that we live in an age of tech stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by flashy mobile devices to notice.
Data innovation has improved quickly, however there is not a great explanation for why progress ought to be restricted to PCs or Silicon Valley.
Progress can be made in any industry or field of business. It comes from the most important skill every leader must master: learning to think for himself.
Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more familiar stuff. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1.
The following Bill Gates won’t construct a working framework. The following Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a web index.
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Tomorrow’s champions will not win mercilessly in today’s market.
They will completely escape from the competition,
because their business will be unique.
Zero to One offers an optimistic vision of the future of America’s progress and a new way of thinking about innovation:
it begins by learning to ask questions that lead you to create value in unexpected places.
