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 .p144 - Stan Cohen Stanford professor fraud suit p112
 .p146 - Frank, friend from high school flying in to spend 18th birthday weekend
 .p147 - death of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Hounshell | Blake Hounshell ]], depression, suicide
  . mother's professional friend, helped revive [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy | Foreign Policy magazine ]]
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 .p149 - Blake jumped off bridge "barely three blocks away" ... from parent's home?
 .p150 - 30% of high school students experience depression, 20% contemplate suicide, 10% attempt it
 .p151 - 10 to 24yo suicides increased 62% between 2007 and 2021, leading cause of preventable death
 .p151 - [[ https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/focus-dont-be-duck-how-resist-stanford-duck-syndrome | Duck Syndrome ]] gliding across surface, paddling desperately below
 .p151 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Meyer | Katie Meyer ]]
 .p152 - Frank, best friend from home
 .p153 - Theo Baker surprise birthday party at the [[ https://maps.stanford.edu/ada/building-ada.cfm?FACIL_ID=02-595 | Daily House ]]

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How to Rule The World

An Education in Power at Stanford University

  • Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )
  • HUNDREDS of CITATIONS NEEDED

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

  • p015 - ch. 1 - Drafted to the War on Fun

  • 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

http://wiki.keithl.com/StanfordRuleWorld

  • 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 p295 - Coda

  • 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 - [3[ | Sigma Ephow many pages are published in the United Statessilon ]]

  • p033 - Sam Catania editor of Stanford Daily

  • p035 - ch. 2 - The Impostor

  • p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit

  • p073 - ch. 4 - Binary Bomb

  • p099 - ch. 5 - A Fucking Menace

  • p099 - "If I woke tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now."
    • "from a Brit" ... actually Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) in "Christmas Vacation" 1989

  • p101 - Slack Channel

  • p101 - Slack channel called "slay" for Stanford daily editors
  • p102 - Stanford board of 33 trustees, no nonprofit leaders or other academics, mostly prominent business people

  • p102 - José E. Feliciano Puerto Rican businessman and investor

  • p103 - Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp email, said Tessier-Lavigne contacted Science in 2015 (4 years before Thorp) requesting corrections, Science erred and did not issue corrections

  • p103 - Theo Baker's rhetorical question "how could they have failed to publish corrections?"
    • Science Magazine prints about a million words a year, far more offline, AAAS also prints five other journals
    • Science Magazine fails to publish 99.999% (WAG) of all that is printed in the world.

    • Theo Baker's constructive response could be a "Letter to the Editor", not petulant, impatient demands of the editor-in-chief

  • p104 - "a scientist in Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's

  • p105 - Special Committee of the Board Jerry Yang,Carol Lam,Jeffrey Stone,Jim Coulter,andFelix Baker

  • p105 - Nancy Olivieri well known whistleblower

  • p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press

  • p106 - Baker invested in Denali Therapeutics, cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest

  • p106 - Aidan Ryan crisis communication executive at powerful Edelman public relations firm

  • p107 - Richard Smith former editor in chief of BMJ - British Medical Association Journal

  • p108 - David Chassin at SLAC

  • p108 - review by Kirkland & Ellis, largest revenue law firm in the world

  • p108 - Mark Filip chosen by Stanford

  • p109 - Filip represented BP in Deepwater Horizon spill, and other huge corporate scandal

  • p110 - Tessier-Lavinge stanford.edu website

  • p110 - Susan McConnell and husband Richard Scheller close friends of Tessier-Lavinge and wife Mary Hynes

  • p111 -202? Science and Cell Editorial Expressions of Concern

  • p111 - Baker did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course

  • p112 - $29.2M civil fraud suit payment by Stanford professor Stan Cohen

  • p112 - invented recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer, who co-founded Genentech

  • p112 - Richard Scheller

  • p112 - Stanford earned hundreds of millions of dollars from 1980s Boyer-Cohen patents

  • p113 - 62% of Stanford's total patent income

  • p113 - In 2016 Cohen claimed cure for Huntington's disease

  • p113 - Novartis paid $3B in 2024 for PTC518

  • p113 - Cohen claimed older compound HD106 compound treated for Huntington disease

    • treatment for Psoriasis in 1970s?
  • p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after drug caused loss of limbs and death

  • p114 - Cohen defrauded Alafi friends, and cheated on wife, hired girlfriend CITATION NEEDED

  • p115 - Alafis won fraud lawsuit against Cohen, $29M paid 2022 December
  • p115 - Stanford communications claimed no knowledge of lawsuit, legal very involved
  • p116 - no punishment or condemnation for Cohen
  • p116 - Cohen's lawyers send threat letter to author Baker and Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania
  • p117 - Christmas gift from parents: "Theo Baker is a fucking menace!" T-shirt

  • p119 - ch. 6 - Rule

  • p119 - Derek "an adult version of Ivan" ???

  • p119 - Unicorn Founder of startup that reaches $1B valuation, only 0.5% do so

    • footnote: 17% of all unicorns founded by Stanford alumni or faculty

  • p120 - The Rosewood ≥$40K/night, "the modern clubhouse for Silicon Valley" on Sand Hill Road ... "a bunch of boring strip-mall offices near Stanford

  • p121 - "business facing" - tech services for Muammar el-Qaddafi

  • p122 - Justin: no spot for Theo in cohort for quarter
  • p122 VCs fund 1% of companies reviewed, higher ratio for Stanford students

  • p123 - SAFE Simple agreement for future equity, pre-seed funding for the right to buy

  • p123 - pre-idea funding

  • p124 - Hacker Houses

  • p124 - student Builders

  • p125 - Ann Miura-Ko Twitch cofounder

  • p126 - Amber Yang The Space Junk Apocalypse seertracking.com ... defunct?

  • p127 - Noor Siddiqui NYT interview Orchid

  • p128 - Jessie Mischa

  • p128 - Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder
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  • Janet 130 131 133 134 135 136

  • p131 - Phoebe Gates Phia shopping assistant

  • p131 - Janet, Arjun
  • p132 - Justin, Billy, Boris, Arjun

  • p132 - Italian company Luxottica controls eyewear industry (11 companies listed) LensCrafters brands

    • list does not include my current TurboFlex glasses frames linkedin Mont-Royal, Quebec

  • p135 - Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family

  • p136 - Stanford Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad wikipedia

  • p137 - Blank: 100% of entrepreneurs think they are visionaries, data say 99% aren't.
  • p137 - Hennessy: most successful startups by grad students, not undergraduates

  • p137 - Elizabeth Holmes sophomore dropout for Theranos

  • p138 Most VCs suck. 2% of VC firms generate 95% of industry's returns, average VC does not outperform average stock.
  • p138 stampede is AI, was crypto before that, was virtual reality before that
  • p138 Money focused on mythologized young founders

  • p139 Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford 2005, president Y Combinator, CEO OpenAI

  • p139 Some parts of Stanford committed to progress, advancement, and ethics. Others expressed best motivations but actually behaved badly.

  • p141 - ch. 7 - Duck Syndrome

  • p141 - "Turkey Drop:" relationships ending around Thanksgiving
  • p141-2 Baker's failed relationship with Lily Zhou

  • p142 COVID still a thing in January 2023. 3400 deaths per week in the US, extrapolated from wikipedia graph

  • p143 - Situationships

  • p143 - Lily
  • p143 - Relationships among people my age at an all time low

  • p144 - Washington Post Philip Graham (reporting is) the first rough draft of history

  • p144 - Stan Cohen Stanford professor fraud suit p112
  • p146 - Frank, friend from high school flying in to spend 18th birthday weekend

  • p147 - death of Blake Hounshell, depression, suicide

  • p148 - small, abused by other school children
  • p149 - Blake jumped off bridge "barely three blocks away" ... from parent's home?
  • p150 - 30% of high school students experience depression, 20% contemplate suicide, 10% attempt it
  • p151 - 10 to 24yo suicides increased 62% between 2007 and 2021, leading cause of preventable death

  • p151 - Duck Syndrome gliding across surface, paddling desperately below

  • p151 - Katie Meyer

  • p152 - Frank, best friend from home

  • p153 - Theo Baker surprise birthday party at the Daily House

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