going to share relevant passages from libertarian tech entrepreneur / venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s book on “how to build the future” here -pic.twitter.com/GhNYV0aN5b
আপনি আপনার টুইটগুলিতে ওয়েব থেকে এবং তৃতীয়-পক্ষ অ্যাপ্লিকেশনগুলির মাধ্যমে অবস্থান তথ্য যেমন শহর বা সুনির্দিষ্ট অবস্থান যোগ করতে পারবেন। আপনার কাছে আপনার টুইটের অবস্থান ইতিহাস মোছার বিকল্প থাকবে। আরও জানুন
and he and Elon Musk et al think they can restore people’s hope in the future by colonizing space.
a startup that aspires to success must choose carefully arranged structure rather than anarchy.pic.twitter.com/h8iuNpEqp4
the proper incentives must be given to ‘align’ people with your company and make them invested in its long-term success (pp. 113,115,116)pic.twitter.com/STNXNYi9ZF
Thiel takes a different view of advertising than most Silicon Valley “nerds”: he accepts it as important and necessarypic.twitter.com/TBjpuJMbZD
he goes so far as to say that sales and politics matter just as much as technological ingenuity, and that poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure (pp. 131,138)
Thiel briefly describes Palantir, his tech startup which works with almost every U.S. military and intelligence agency to “help find terrorists”pic.twitter.com/NvjaR2TeYm
“Technology is supposed to _increase_ our mastery over nature and _reduce_ the role of chance in our lives.” (p.150)
Thiel complains China is simply adopting wasteful Western living and not furthering ‘technology,’ but later mentions that U.S. cleantech companies failed because they couldn’t compete with Chinese solar panel production (p.163)pic.twitter.com/BYYvhZavhD
the irony (but not really) that Peter Thiel would use PayPal tech to help U.S. intelligence + military “find terrorists” when four of the six PayPal founders built bombs in high school (p.173)pic.twitter.com/eiz6pusup1
Thiel says successful startups often resemble ‘feudal monarchies’; authoritative, eccentric leaders make people faithful and loyalpic.twitter.com/R8blkLj5gd
the last pages of the book have Thiel reckoning with possible human extinction and generally sounding like a kind of millenarian. zeitgeistpic.twitter.com/YyrXjuWMCt
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।