Crumpled Paper

A list of internet gems

• The Top Idea in Your Mind by Paul Graham
  • https://paulgraham.com/top.html

• The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  • https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Big_Short/TNarLsnZyPoC?hl=en&gbpv=0

• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
  • URL: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+contrarian+peter+thiel&hvadid=694450747820&hvdev=c&hvexpln=67&hvlocphy=1014485&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=11277018334755039931--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11277018334755039931&hvtargid=kwd-1423444431818&hydadcr=22126_13323409&mcid=b4ea61f35aed3f2da6e11f6ac3d75ad0&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_9c2bgu88rm_e_p67

• Means of Control by Bryon Tau
  • URL: https://www.amazon.com/Means-Control-Alliance-Government-Surveillance/dp/0593443225

• The Great Silence by Ted Ted Chiang
  • URL: https://electricliterature.com/the-great-silence-by-ted-chiang/

• Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
  • URL: https://www.amazon.com/Skin-in-Game-audiobook/dp/B077BSK9LC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DBEAJOLTLE89&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AzZT0hFiazVlswnGasXLOUm6MBzjW9ZvtGzrOK5iUw9y268C4usSk2QuT3VLPD7LhzkZWbrgytFsYnE31XjbThKaNg2kPd9yCq82c151xfP8I2U5Jr6s0elwsiMjNwa3ToB4dgjmrkDa44MQDCqs_cWD7g-62wHLIxOM6wSqdIDPuj76KixQRsY5O0grxA644vdLwJ5e2FFRllZ_lhhGQ_FxPlhwfyBmnp7E_hyUgGU.BZ2V9v4ZVorxy__R64DN5ifbJZnz7WOCCAObOTbB9fE&dib_tag=se&keywords=skin+in+the+game+by+nassim+nicholas+taleb&qid=1759702528&sprefix=Skin+in+the+Game+by+Nassim+%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1

• Consolations by David Whyte
  • Poem: Anger
  • URL: https://archive.org/details/consolationssola0000whyt/page/256/mode/2up

• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  • URL: https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden/dp/1250237238

• The Days are Long but the Decades are Short by Sam Altman
  • URL: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

• Flying Cars, AI, and Peter Thiel’s Myth of Stagnation by Hans Jochen Scholl
  • URL: https://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/2025/07/26/flying-cars-ai-and-peter-thiels-myth-of-stagnation/