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How to Rule The World

An Education in Power at Stanford University

• Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )

No index, very difficult to follow the names through the text, so here's a list

• p001 - Tresidder Memorial Union - food court
• p002 - Justin
• p003 - comparison of summed public company values to GDPs (a 12 month sum) of countries
• p004 - Bob Martin - software pioneer
• p004 - Peter Thiel - Palantir founder
• p004 - Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO
• p004 - Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder
• p005 - ... - Thinking Machines startup
• p006 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne - MTL - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist
  • searching for cause of Alzheimer's
• p007 - the Farm - Leland Stanford's horse farm
• p007 - John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016
• p008 - William Shockley - Stanford Research Park
• p008 - 150 companies in Park: Tesla, Google, Lyft
• p008 - Sand Hill Road
• p008 - Stanford's own VC fund
• p009 - Google from grad student's garage (?)

• p009 - Stanford adjacent: Instagram, DoorDash, 40,000 active companies

  • Anthropic, Capital One, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Expedia, LinkedIn, Netflix, Nike, OpenAI, Yahoo!, Zilloq

  • not expect: Bain&Company, Charles Schwab, Trader Joe's, TSMC(??), Victoria's Secret

• p009 - Nvidia founder Jensen Huang: "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y
• p009 - Chamath Palihapitiya, 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets
• p010 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1922? Stanford president, First Million club

• p012 - Scott Turow One L book about first year at Harvard Law School

• p016 - Makeshift boats for Lake Lagunita, motorized couches to get to class
• p016 - Wacky Walk, dress up as catholic Cardinals
• p017 - Campus 8180 acres, 8000 undergraduates

• p017 - Hewlett and Packad, 1938 garage, $538 -> $12170 2026 dollars

• p017 - Alondra the nerd dorm

• p018 - everyone lives on campus

• p018 - Synergy nudist dorm, Enchanted Broccolo Forest marijuana dorm, Terra judgy gay dorm

• p018 - SLE Structured Liberal Education One great book per week freshman year

• p019 - Eurotrash, first party of the year at Kappa Sigma, cancelled by university

• p020 - Party Review Committee, 6 departments, titles SUPER, OSE, SUDPS, RedEd, SUFMO, and FSL

• p020 - Harm Reduction Plan
• p021 - Stanford motto "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Let the winds of freedom blow
• p022 - Officially, no noise more than 55dB after 10pm ... "average conversation is 70db" (refrigerator is 55dB?)
  • inaccurate ... normal conversation 60 dB. Sleep is disrupted at 40 dB. Sleep in a dorm is essential, public conversation after 10pm is disruptive and superfluous. A decent wall should reduce quiet conversation below audibility in a neighboring room
• p022 - Stanford Social Life Accelerator Task Force
• p022 - "all fun had disappeared". Try learning instead. Some of us still have fun learning 50 years after university.

• p022 - grandfather Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this Stephen Glasser

• p023 - voracious reader

• p025 - R.B. Brenner The Daily's advisory board

• p025 - Coupa Cafe main meeting place on campus - which one of six?

• p028 - Mary, former The Daily editor-in-chief

• p028 - Lucy "US National Team athlete"
• p028 - Sigma Nu fraternity president Moritz Stephan

• p030 - John Doerr School of Sustainability

• p031 - John Hennessy

• p032 - Sigma Epsilon

• p033 - Sam editor

• p035 - Logan

• p037 - congressional Republicans "120%? more semantically similar"

• p037 - OpenAI's seminal 72 page Codex paper in 2021 (age 16 )

• p038 - Lily Zhou 1 year younger

• p039 - 16yo Software genius Nick

• p039 - Stanford Internet Observatory

• p040 - CS109 Weeder class

• p040 - Stanford admission rate 3.6%

• p041 - Stanford > $95K / year

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