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Patrick Collison

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Irish billionaire entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of Stripe. Winner of the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005. Founder of Fast Grants.

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Patrick Collison @PatrickCollison · Jun 3, 2023
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Very good post. (Particularly liked this comparative analysis of France and the UK.)

Article Jun 2, 2023
Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
by Sam Bowman 🇺🇦
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Patrick Collison @PatrickCollison · Mar 24, 2024
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I learned a lot from this: [link] (If you liked Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, @stevenstrogatz is quoted on the back saying that it's a "masterpiece" that's "nothing short of revolutionary".)

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Systems Medicine: Physiological Circuits and the Dynamics of Disease (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)
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https://t.co/L8RynYggXA is a very engaging book about project management.

Book Jun 5, 2007
The Pentagon: A History
by Steve Vogel
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Vacation over. Top book picks: 1. http://t.co/C0KaI6ilW4 2. http://t.co/ark1BYfaxu 3. http://t.co/3Y9rWtlGgu 4.

Book Aug 18, 2011
SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
by Stewart Brand
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A great book about doing something totally new:

Book Jan 1, 2009
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
by Sally Smith Hughes
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Long wanted to read more about Scottish Enlightenment (what was in the water?!); turns out Herman's book is great:

Book Nov 27, 2001
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
by Arthur Herman
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Oliver Morton's new book about geoengineering is worth reading:

Book Nov 3, 2015
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World: Morton
by Oliver Morton
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If you want to wrap your head around what Larry Ellison accomplished, this is the book:

Book Sep 23, 2003
Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
by Matthew Symonds and Larry Ellison
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Nick Bostrom's new book is excellent:

Book Jul 3, 2014
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
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If someone was, hypothetically, to spend too much time reading different books about program management during Apollo, I suspect they’d conclude that this one is the best:

Book Jun 26, 2002
The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs
by Stephen B. Johnson
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Peter Thiel first invested in Stripe in summer of 2010—50 months ago—and just released a very good book.

Book Oct 7, 2014
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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Vacation over. Top book picks: 1. http://t.co/C0KaI6ilW4 2. http://t.co/ark1BYfaxu 3. http://t.co/3Y9rWtlGgu 4.

Book Oct 2, 2014
Napoleon: A Life
by Andrew Roberts and Napoleon
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