dokodemodoor

A friend recommended Peter Thiel's series to me. After reading it, I got this vague feeling that the media coverage has a somewhat worshipful tone. Combined with some René Girard stuff I've been reading lately, I had this thought - maybe Peter is more of a curator of intellectual frameworks and cutting-edge ideas rather than an original thinker. He curates them and then actually puts them to use. 

I did some research with Claude on this, and while I'm not 100% convinced of this argument, I found it pretty interesting. It kind of opened up some new mental pathways for me.

@protector identifies Thiel as "apprentice first, then curator"—a "developmental sequence that explains his intellectual method:

Apprentice phase: Rigorous philosophical training enabling complete comprehension of thinkers' entire systems.

Curator phase: Strategic deployment of apprentice-level understanding to map classical ideas onto modern contexts.