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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

  • 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

  • p035 - Stanford Marriage Pact algorithmically match students using survey responses (p50)

  • 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

  • p043 - bae

  • p043 - William Curry living in Harvard Dorm, imposter from Alabama

  • p044 - Alicia

  • p044 - Graham resident suspicious of Curry

  • p045 - Cassidy another news writer

  • p045 - Steve Jobs also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation

  • p050 - majority of Marriage Pact Stanford CS students would rather cheat than fail
  • p051 - Fizz

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  • p053 -

  • p054 - TreeHacks

  • p055 - Sara

  • p055 - Vedant p67

  • p058 - Ivan

  • p059 - Sequoia, Lightspeed, Pear, CRV, Founders Fund, Accel, Social Capital, Spark Capital
  • p060 - D1 Sports

  • p063 - Julian

  • p063 - Lake Laguinita Yacht Club (no longer filled with scarce water)

  • p06
  • p065 - ASES Affiliated Stanford Entreprenuerial Students

  • p065 - BASES Business Association of Stanford Entreprenuerial Students ]]

  • p066 - Plucked

  • p066 - Friends and Family

  • p066 - Builders Society

  • p066 - Pear Garage

  • p066 - Floodgate Reactor

  • p066 - Interact Fellowship

  • p066 - ME410 Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation

  • p066 - Mayfield Fellows Program

  • p066 - How to Rule The World secret class

  • p067 - Mansion in the hills

  • p068 - Parth

  • p068 - Jackson

  • p069 - FOTH Friend of the House

  • p069 - senior named George

  • p070 - Riya

  • p070 - Bruh

  • p071 - Jessica

  • p073 - Jacob

  • p073 - PubPeer

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