“Anyone who is threatened and is forced by necessity either to act or suffer,” writes Machiavelli, “becomes a very dangerous man to the prince.” “How do you respond when told something is impossible? Is that the end of the conversation or the start of one?” people told Peter that he can’t do anything about this because the media operates this way and that didn’t sit well with him. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is fascinated about strategy.
It had been one of the most covered and surreal legal cases in history, and no one has suspected a thing.īig question in this book: what would a world without these skills look like? And would a world with more of them be a nightmare or something better? These two seemingly unrelated events were in fact the bookends of a nearly decade long plot masterminded by Peter Thiel, for both obvious and non-obvious reasons. In 2016 Gawker Media was forced to declare bankruptcy after a $140 million dollar judgement in Florida court over an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan with his best friend’s wife. Peter said, “It wasn’t the outing itself, however, that most got to him, but the second narrative, that he has psychological problems because he didn’t want to be outed…”Īs a result of this ‘violation’ Peter Thiel conspired to put Gawker Media out of business. The blog post was published by Valleywag, the site formed part of Gawker Media.Īs Cicero said, the beginnings of all things are small, and so was this one. The conspiracy was triggered by a blog post that outed Peter Thiel as homosexual in 2007 and the headline was Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People. Ryan narrates this brilliant and terrifying conspiracy on three distinct phases namely: the planning, the doing and the aftermath. Nick Denton is the founder of the late Gawker Media and Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
The protagonists of this one are two of the most distinctly unique personalities of their time, Nick Denton and Peter Thiel.
There is an unpleasantness in talking about conspiracies.Įvery conspiracy is a story of people.
In this book Ryan demystifies and argues that the word conspiracy is a neutral word – it depends on what one does with it.Ī conspiracy entails determined, coordinated action, done in secret – always in secret – that aims to disrupt the status quo or accomplish some aim. Over the past years the word conspiracy has been associated with negative things. Ryan released Conspiracy earlier this year. To me Ryan Holiday forms part of my list I meditate, question and study everything he produces. Someone wiser than me once said we should select few great authors to deeply study and consume whatever they create or produce.
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