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 .p21 - [[ | ]] . http://wiki.keithl.com/StanfordRuleWorld No index, difficult to track 177 names
through the text, so here's a web-searchable
list of pages with +[name] for each first
occurrence, not including acknowledgements

. http://wiki.keithl.com/StanfordRuleWorld

Librarians - please leave note this loosely
attached inside the cover to help other
readers (or spend MANY hours making better
lists. And ask publishers for indices!)

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 . Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )  . [[ https://theobaker.info/ | Theo Baker ]] . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )
 
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No index, very difficult to follow the names through the text, so here's a list

 .p001 - Tresidder Memorial Union - food court
 .p002 - +Justin

No index, difficult to track 177 names
through the text, so here's a web-searchable
list of pages with +[name] for each first
occurence, not including acknowledgements
 
 . parents +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glasser | Susan Glasser ]] of the New Yorker and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baker_%28journalist%29 | Peter Baker ]] of the New York Times, not mentioned by name in the book
 .p001 - [[ https://tresidder.stanford.edu/tresidder-memorial-union | Tresidder Memorial Union - food court ]]
 .p002 - +Justin - secret class for promising people
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 .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
 .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Martin | Bob Martin - software pioneer ]]
 .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel | Peter Thiel ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies| Palantir founder ]]
 .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp | Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO ]]
 .p004 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever | Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder ]]
 .p005 - ... - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation | Thinking Machines ]] startup
 .p006 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier-Lavigne | Marc Tessier-Lavigne - MTL ]] - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist
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 .p007 - the Farm - Leland Stanford's horse farm
 .p007 - +John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016
 .p008 - +William Shockley - Stanford Research Park
 .p007 - the Farm - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford | Leland Stanford's ]] horse farm
 .p007 - +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy | John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016 ]]
 .p008 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley | William Shockley ]] - Stanford Research Park
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 .p008 - Sand Hill Road  .p008 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road | Sand Hill Road ]]
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 .p009 - Nvidia founder +Jensen Huang: "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y
 .p009 - C+hamath 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
 .p009 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia | Nvidia ]] founder +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang | Jensen Huang:]] "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y
 .p009 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya | Chamath Palihapitiya ]], 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets

 .p010 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lyman_Wilbur | Ray Lyman Wilbur,]] 1922? Stanford president, First Million club
 .p012 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow | Scott Turow ]] ''One L'' book about first year at Harvard Law School
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 .p022 - grandfather +Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this [[ https://moriartyfh.com/obituaries/stephen-glasser |  Stephen Glasser ]] p295 - Coda  .p022 - grandfather +Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this [[ https://moriartyfh.com/obituaries/stephen-glasser | Stephen Glasser ]] p295 - Coda
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 .p025 - +R.B. Brenner ''The Daily's'' advisory board  .p025 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brenner | R.B. Brenner ]] ''The Daily's'' advisory board
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 .p030 - +[[   | John ]] [[ | Doerr School of Sustainability ]]
 .p031 - +[[   | John Hennessy ]]
 .p032 - [[   | Sigma Epsilon ]]
 .p030 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr | John Doerr ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Doerr_School_of_Sustainability | Doerr School of Sustainability ]]
 .p031 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy | John Hennessy ]]
 .p032 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Phi_Epsilon | Sigma Phi Epsilon ]] SigEp
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 .p035 - +[[ | Logan ]]
 .p035 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Pact | 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 ]]
 .p035 - + Logan - wealth-obsessed junior, also from DC like Theo Baker, $750K Ferrari, "FALIURE" license plate
 .p035 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_Pact | Stanford Marriage Pact ]] algorithmicly match students using survey responses (p50)
 .p037 - congressional Republicans "120%? more semantically similar" to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon | QAnon ]]
 .p037 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI| OpenAI's ]] seminal [[ https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374 | 72 page Codex paper in 2021 ]] (age 16 )
 .p038 - 10X engineer
 .p038 -
+[[ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/people/lily-zhou | Lily Zhou ]] 1 year younger
 .p039 - +16yo Software genius Nick, important published paper when high school sophomore
 .p039 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Internet_Observatory | Stanford Internet Observatory ]]
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 .p040 - [[ | Stanford admission rate 3.6% ]]
 .p041 - [[ | Stanford > $95K / year ]]
 .p040 - [[ https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Stanford-admission-requirements | Stanford admission rate 3.6% ]]
 .p041 - Stanford > $95K / year
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 .p044 - +[[ | Alisha ]] freshman
 .p044 - +[[ | Graham ]] resident suspicious of Curry
 .p045 - +[[ | Cassidy ]] another news writer
 .p045 - +[[ | Steve Jobs ]] also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation
 .p044 - +Alisha freshman
 .p044 - +Graham resident suspicious of Curry, same high school
 .p045 - +Cassidy another news writer
 .p045 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs | Steve Jobs ]] also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation
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 .p051 - [[ | ]]
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 .p055 - [[ | +Sara ]]
 .p055 - [[ | +Vedant ]] p67 p68 p81 p170
 .p058 - [[ | +Ivan ]] 23 yo "coupa circuit fixer"
 .p055 - +Sara  ? started and ran half a dozen hackathons. projected hyper-competence
 .p055 - +Vedant? p67 p68 p81 p170 p274
 .p058 - +Ivan? yo "coupa circuit fixer"
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.p060 - [[ | D1 Sports ]]
 .p063 - [[ | +Julian ]]
 .p063 - [[ | Lake Laguinita Yacht Club ]] (no longer filled with scarce water)
 .p060 - [[ https://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting/how-to-get-recruited/college-divisions | D1 Sports ]] 
 .p063 - +Julian
 .p063 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lagunita | Lake Laguinita Yacht Club ]] (no longer filled with scarce water)
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 .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 ]]
 .p066 - Plucked ... Stanford students found early and groomed for wealth creation
 .p066 - Friends and Family ... a Builders Society hosting hackathons and dispensing $10K mocro-grants
 .p066 - [[ https://pear.vc/programs/dorm/garage/ | Pear Garage ]]
 .p066 - [[ https://www.floodgate.com/reactor-v1 | Floodgate Reactor ]]
 .p066 - [[ https://joininteract.com/ | Interact Fellowship ]]
 .p066 - [[ https://exhibits.stanford.edu/syllabi/catalog/fb022qx4341 | ME410 Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation ]]
 .p066 - [[ https://stvp.stanford.edu/students/fellows-programs/mayfield-fellows-program | Mayfield Fellows Program ]]
 .p066 - How to Rule The World - Justin's secret class
 .p067 - Treehacks at mansion in the hills
 .p068 - +Parth at Treehacks
 .p068 - +Jackson founder from Nebraska at Treehacks
 .p069 - FOTH - Friend of the House
 .p069 - +senior named George
 .p070 - +Riya sapling at Treehacks
 .p070 - Bruh: brother
 .p071 - +Jessica sapling at Treehacks
 .p073 - +Jacob recent Stanford graduate, fan of War on Fun article
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 .p073 - [[  | PubPeer ]]
 .p075 - [[ | +Karsteh ]]
 .p076 - [[  | Therac-25 ]]
 .p076 - [[ | +Jerry Cain ]]
 .p077 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried | +SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried ]]
 .p077 - [[  | Alameda Research ]]
 .p078 - [[ | +Rob Reich ]]
 .p078 - [[  | Effective Altruism ]]
 .p080 - [[ | +Elizabeth Holmes ]]
 .p080 - [[ | +Tim Draper ]]
 .p073 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubPeer | PubPeer ]]
 .p075 - +Karsten, encountered years earlier, warned about MTL
 .p076 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 | Therac-25 ]]
 .p076 - +[[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrycainjr/ | Jerry Cain ]]
 .p077 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried | SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried ]]
 .p077 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Research | Alameda Research ]]
 .p078 - +[[ https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich | Rob Reich ]]
 .p078 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism | Effective Altruism ]]
 .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes | Elizabeth Holmes ]]
 .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper | Tim Draper ]]
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 .p080 - [[ | +Do Kwon ]] created cryptocurrencies [[ | Luna ]] and [[ | TerraUSD ]]
 .p080 - [[ | +Bowen ]] and [[ | +Monsees ]]
 .p081 - [[  | Juul ]]
 .p083 - [[ | +Elizabeth Bik ]] Biology's Image Detective
 .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Kwon | Do Kwon ]] created cryptocurrencies [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(blockchain) | Luna and TerraUSD ]]
 .p080 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bowen | Bowen ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monsees | Monsees ]]
 .p081 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul| Juul ]]
 .p083 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik | Elizabeth Bik ]] Biology's Image Detective
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 .p089 - CS107 [[ https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs107/cs107.1194/assign6/ | Binary Bomb ]]  .pFelix Baker089 - CS107 [[ https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs107/cs107.1194/assign6/ | Binary Bomb ]]
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 .p091 - friend +Sergio +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Schekman | Randy Schekman ]] +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Cline | Hollis Cline ]]--
 .p094 - [[ | Davis Wright Tremaine ]] top First Amendment law firm on the West Coast
 .p094 - [[ | +R.B. Brenner ]]
 .p094 - [[ | +Tracy Jan ]] at Washington Post
 .p091 - friend +Sergio, +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Schekman | Randy Schekman ]], +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Cline | Hollis Cline ]]
 .p094 - +[[ https://www.dwt.com/ | Davis Wright Tremaine ]] top First Amendment law firm on the West Coast
 .p094 - +[[ https://journalism.stanford.edu/people/rb-brenner | R.B. Brenner ]]
 .p094 - +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tracy-jan/ | Tracy Jan ]] at Washington Post
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 .p095 - [[ | +Dee Mostofi ]] Stanford spokesperson
 .p097 - [[ | +Eric Stahl ]], a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine
 .p095 - +[[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/deemostofi/ | Dee Mostofi ]] Stanford spokesperson
 .p097 - +[[ https://www.dwt.com/people/s/stahl-eric-m | Eric Stahl ]], a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine
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 .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, ]]and[[ | +Felix 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
 .p104 - "a scientist in Meyer Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's
 .p105 - Special Committee of the Board [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang | +Jerry Yang, ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Lam | +Carol Lam, ]] [[ n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Stone_(California_and_Nevada_politician) | +Jeffrey Stone, ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coulter_(financier) | +Jim Coulter, ]] and [[ https://www.forbes.com/profile/felix-baker/ | +Felix Baker ]]
 .p105 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Olivieri | +Nancy Olivieri ]] well known whistleblower
 .p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press
 .p106 - Felix Baker invested in [[ https://denalitherapeutics.com/ | Denali Therapeutics, ]] cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest
 .p106 - [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidanryan/ | +Aidan Ryan ]] crisis communication executive at powerful [[ https://www.edelman.com/ | Edelman ]] public relations firm
 .p107 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smith_(editor) | +Richard Smith ]] former editor in chief of [[ https://www.bmj.com/ | BMJ - British Medical Association Journal ]]
 .p108 - [[ https://powernet.stanford.edu/people/david-chassin | +David Chassin ]] at SLAC
 .p108 - review by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_%26_Ellis | Kirkland & Ellis, ]] largest revenue law firm in the world
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  . clerk for Supreme Court Justice [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia | +Antonin Scalia ]]
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 .p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_2 |]] JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay ]]  .p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_2 | JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay ]]
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 .p111 - Baker did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course
 .p112 - [[ https://stanforddaily.com/2022/12/21/stanford-professor-pays-29m-in-fraud-case/ | $29.2M civil fraud suit payment ]] by Stanford professor
  
[[ http://baypedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(biochemist) | Stan Cohen ]]
 .p112 - invented [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA | recombinant DNA technology ]] with [+[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer | Herb Boyer, ]] who co-founded [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech | Genentech ]]
 .p111 - Theo did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course
 .p112 - [[ https://stanforddaily.com/2022/12/21/stanford-professor-pays-29m-in-fraud-case/ | $29.2M civil fraud suit payment ]] by Stanford professor + [[ http://baypedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(biochemist) | Stan Cohen ]]
 .p112 - invented [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA | recombinant DNA technology ]] with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer | Herb Boyer, ]] who co-founded [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genentech | Genentech ]]
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  .   . p113 - HD106 compound "approved in the 1970s for treating a different condition
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 .p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after drug caused loss of limbs and death  .p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after HD106 caused loss of limbs and death
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 .p116 - Cohen's lawyers send threat letter to author Baker and Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania  .p116 - Cohen's lawyers send threat letter to author Theo and Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania
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 .p126 - [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-yang/ | Amber Yang ]]  [[ https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/articles/entrepreneurs-leaders/5-questions-amber-yang-master-space-debris-apocalypse/ | The Space Junk Apocalypse ]] [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20211127025607/https://www.seertracking.com/ | seertracking.com ]] ... defunct?
 .p127 - +[[ https://noorsiddiqui.com/ | Noor Siddiqui ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html | NYT interview ]] [[ https://www.orchidhealth.com/ | Orchid ]] 
 .p128 - +Jessie: meet +Mischa
 .p126 - [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-yang/ | Amber Yang ]] [[ https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/articles/entrepreneurs-leaders/5-questions-amber-yang-master-space-debris-apocalypse/ | The Space Junk Apocalypse ]] [[ https://web.archive.org/web/20211127025607/https://www.seertracking.com/ | seertracking.com ]] ... defunct?
 .p127 Amber helped found weekly [[ https://nofiltertalks.com/ | No Filter Club ]]
 .p127
- +[[ https://noorsiddiqui.com/ | Noor Siddiqui ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html | NYT interview ]] [[ https://www.orchidhealth.com/ | Orchid ]]
 .p128 - +Jessie: meets +Mischa
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 .P128 - How To Rule The World class called "Rule", 12 participants
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 .p132 - Justin, Billy, Boris, Arjun  .p132 - Justin, +Billy, +Boris, Arjun
 .p132 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28programmer%29 | Paul Graham ]]
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 .p135 - Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family  .p133 - Justin's classes focused on extracting value from others
 .p134 - Justin "hit on" female pupils
.p135 - "Builder" Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family
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 .p141-2 Baker's failed relationship with +Lily Zhou  .p141-2 Theo's failed relationship with +Lily Zhou
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 .p169 - used [[ treehacks.com | Treehacks ]] office after hours to serve corporate sponsors that The Stanford Daily would normally investigate
 .p170 - going to Genentech interview, Baker sees MTL coming the other way
 .p169 - used Treehacks office after hours to serve corporate sponsors that The Stanford Daily would normally investigate
 .p170 - going to Genentech interview, Theo sees MTL coming the other way
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 .p182 - Baker shares writup with Washington Post science editor +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tracy-jan/ | Tracy Jan ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kramon | Glenn Kramon ]]  .p182 - Theo shares writup with Washington Post science editor +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tracy-jan/ | Tracy Jan ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kramon | Glenn Kramon ]]
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 .p199 - Threatening letter to Theo Baker  .p199 - Threatening letter to Theo
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 .p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo Baker  .p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo
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 .p205 - Theo Baker missing classes, Stanford resident director +[[ https://resed.stanford.edu/people/kenneth-graham | Kenneth Graham ]] concerned  .p205 - Theo missing classes, Stanford resident director +[[ https://resed.stanford.edu/people/kenneth-graham | Kenneth Graham ]] concerned
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 .p231 - professors would hang up after their group calls and call Baker with details  .p231 - professors would hang up after their group calls and call Theo with details
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 .p244 - faculty senate meeting including +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice | Condoleezza Rice ]] to remove +[[ Rupert_Murdoch | Rupert Murdoch ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer | Rebekah Mercer ]] from board of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution | Hoover Institution ]]  .p244 - faculty senate meeting including +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice | Condoleezza Rice ]] to remove +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch | Rupert Murdoch ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer | Rebekah Mercer ]] from board of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution | Hoover Institution ]]
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 .p251 - Genentech pursuing a $46B acquisition deal by [[ | Roche ]]
 .p25 - [[ | ]]
 .p25 - [[ | ]]
 .p25 - [[ | ]]
 .p25 - [[ | ]]
 .p251 - Genentech pursuing a $46B acquisition deal by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche | Roche ]]
 .p251 - in 2009, Genentech pursuing 12 year legal monopoly for ?
 .p251 - Genentech 2009 emergency FDA authorization of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevacizumab | Avstatin ]] to treat metastatic breast cancer, subsequent research showed it ineffective
 .p251 - NYT found nearly identical statements from 42 congressmen lobbying the FDA for Genentech
 .p252 - ineffective for "countless breast cancer patients", delayed authorization revocation until 2011
 .p253 - Richard Scheller (p110)
 .p253 - gRED: Genentech Research and Early Development division, director also urged 2009 paper retraction
 .p254 - Genentech statement: "Prior to publication of the paper, employees other than the author performed binding experiments that showed inconsistent results", contrary to subseqent statements by MTL
 .p255 - Nature formal expression of concern
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 .p25 - [[ | ]]
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 .p26 - [[ | ]]
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 .p257 - Theo's other grandfather Eleftherios Peter Baker (Pappouzi) +[[ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/eleftherios-baker-obituary?id=51595336 | dies ]] 2023
 .p258 - [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk_Awards | Polk Awards ]] Ceremony ... 17? categories
 .p258 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynsey_Addario | Lynsey Addario ]] photojournalist also Polk Award recipient
 .p259 - +[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ben-pauker/ | Ben Pauker ]] colleague of Theo Baker's mother
 .p260 - Theo finds [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone| oxycodone ]] left by his grandfather, "popped a few pills", wave of crashing warmth, takes bottle with him to school (KL: against the law and common sense)
 .p261 - Theo frets, insecure, takes more oxycodone, overdose
 .p261 - Theo slurs, heart slows down, uses "gift" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxone | Narcan ]] in dorm room, alone
 .p262 - mute and paralyzed
 .p263 - threw up for hours, shaking, finally slept
 .p263 - dumpstered the pills in the morning (toilet not good enough?), later told a doctor what happened
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 .p266 - Condi Rice former Stanford provost, as was +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman | Frederick Terman ]]
 .p269 - [[ https://www.hummingbird.vc/ | Hummingbird VC ]]
 .p270 - +"Lyle who served as class president for his year" Citation Needed
 .p271 - Stanford Highly Incompetent Team S.H.I.T. building race car, "A balloon would be above our budget"
 .p271 - [[ https://24hoursoflemons.com/ | 24 Hours of LeMons ]]
 .p271 - +Nathan, +Helen, +Mick
 .p272 - +Cole, crazy claims, all true. [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system | 1800 Elo chess rating]]
 .p273 - +Anya "A yacht party is, like, a central Stanford experience"
 .p274 - !TreeHacks swag
 .p274 - !TreeHacks teammate +John (not Darnton?)
 .p275 - !Chris CS homework signing "Declaration: I did not use ChatGPT", with ChatGPT open in a split window
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 .p280 - Russian dissident +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny | Alexei Navalny's ]] exiled investigators tracking oligarchs evading sanctions.
 .p281 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Flier | Jeffrey Flier ]] lack of witness confidentiality "extremely unusual"
 .p283 - 95 page report on secure website, only screenshots, no download
 .p285 - several papers based on manipulated data, but MTL seemingly absolved by cover letter
 .p285 - MTL said he had not been able to provide adequate explanation for failure to correct the scientific record
 .p286 - panel recommended all five papers be retracted or substantially corrected, MTL retracted 3 and corrected 2
 .p286 - panel concluded three papers falsified
 .p288 - Theo finishes writing, gets two messages from national publications about MTL resigning
 .p289 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saller | Richard Saller ]] becomes interim president
 .p290 - actual board decision a month prior to announcement
 .p291 - there was no pro-MTL camp at the endGene Sykes
 .p291 - the panel had not bought any of MTL's excuses
 .p293 - MTL demanded 6 month continued use of presidential mansion; received 7-figure payout
 .p294 - Stanford is supposed to look perfect
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 .p296 also replaced provost, dean of research, head of undergraduate education, and head of student affairs
 .p296 co-chair +[[ tanforddaily.com/2014/02/04/gene-sykes-shares-thoughts-on-joining-board-of-trustees/ | Gene Sykes ]]
 .p297 end of "fake-it-till-you-make-it" and War on Fun
 .p298 - +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li | Fei-Fei Li ]] and +[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_D._Manning | Christopher Manning ]] left for private sector
 .p300 - across scientific publishing, four studies are retracted for every ten thousand published
 .p300 - Holden Thorp at ''Science'' announced that journals would use forensic tools to detect manipulation
 .p301 - New MTL company [[ https://www.xaira.com/ | Xiara ]]
 .p302 - Theo offered funding if he wanted to start a company.

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No index, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurrence, not including acknowledgements

. http://wiki.keithl.com/StanfordRuleWorld

Librarians - please leave note this loosely attached inside the cover to help other readers (or spend MANY hours making better lists. And ask publishers for indices!)


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, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurence, not including acknowledgements


  • 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
  • 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 Debian User Forums 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 Doerr School of Sustainability

  • p031 - +John Hennessy

  • p032 - Sigma Phi Epsilon SigEp

  • p033 - +Sam Catania editor of Stanford Daily


  • p035 - ch. 2 - The Impostor


  • p035 - + Logan - wealth-obsessed junior, also from DC like Theo Baker, $750K Ferrari, "FALIURE" license plate
  • p035 - Stanford Marriage Pact algorithmicly match students using survey responses (p50)

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

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

  • p038 - 10X engineer
  • p038 - +Lily Zhou 1 year younger

  • p039 - +16yo Software genius Nick, important published paper when high school sophomore
  • p039 - Stanford Internet Observatory

  • p040 - CS109 Weeder class

  • p040 - Stanford admission rate 3.6%

  • p041 - Stanford > $95K / year

  • p043 - +bae sweetheart, baby

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

  • p044 - +Alisha freshman
  • p044 - +Graham resident suspicious of Curry, same high school
  • 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 discussion and news feed platform


  • p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit


  • p053 - TreeHacks

  • p055 - +Sara ? started and ran half a dozen hackathons. projected hyper-competence
  • p055 - +Vedant? p67 p68 p81 p170 p274
  • p058 - +Ivan? yo "coupa circuit fixer"
  • 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)

  • p065 - BASES Business Association of Stanford Entreprenuerial Students

  • p066 - Plucked ... Stanford students found early and groomed for wealth creation
  • p066 - Friends and Family ... a Builders Society hosting hackathons and dispensing $10K mocro-grants
  • 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 - Justin's secret class
  • p067 - Treehacks at mansion in the hills
  • p068 - +Parth at Treehacks
  • p068 - +Jackson founder from Nebraska at Treehacks
  • p069 - FOTH - Friend of the House
  • p069 - +senior named George
  • p070 - +Riya sapling at Treehacks
  • p070 - Bruh: brother
  • p071 - +Jessica sapling at Treehacks
  • p073 - +Jacob recent Stanford graduate, fan of War on Fun article


  • 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 Meyer 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, and +Felix Baker

  • p105 - +Nancy Olivieri well known whistleblower

  • p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press
  • p106 - Felix 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 2010 spill, and other huge corporate scandal

  • p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay

  • 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 - Theo 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 (p110)
  • 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 - HD106 compound "approved in the 1970s for treating a different condition
  • 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 HD106 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 Theo 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 Amber helped found weekly No Filter Club

  • p127 - +Noor Siddiqui NYT interview Orchid

  • p128 - +Jessie: meets +Mischa
  • p128 - +Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder
  • P128 - How To Rule The World class called "Rule", 12 participants
    • Justin 129 130 131 132 133 134
    • Janet 130 131 133 134 135 136
  • p131 - +Phoebe Gates Phia shopping assistant

  • p131 - +Janet, +Arjun
  • p132 - Justin, +Billy, +Boris, Arjun
  • p132 - +Paul Graham

  • 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

  • p133 - Justin's classes focused on extracting value from others
  • p134 - Justin "hit on" female pupils
  • p135 - "Builder" 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 Theo'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


  • p155 - ch. 8 - Harriet the Spy


  • p155 - MTL: " ... you can spot a Canadian on a crowded street ... the person who's saying please and thank you to the ATM machine."
  • p156 MTL capable of immense rage, p157 singular ambition
  • p157 - netrin guides axon growth, 1994

  • p159 - gift authorship

  • p160 - MTL provided reagents to other projects and authors, added as co-author for their paper
  • p161 - Review scientists +Shirley Tilghman +Steve Hyman +Randy Schekman +Hollis Cline +Kafui Dzirasa

  • p162 - investigation of Stanford head football coach +Troy Taylor investigated twice, ESPN investigated and was sued by Taylor

  • p162 - parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, former dean of freshman and coercive sexual relationship with student

  • p163 - +Stanford cofounder Jane Stanford poisoned 1905, husband buried truth

  • p164 - MTL collaborator +Cori Bargmann

  • p165 - MTL collaborator +Corey Goodman shared Gruber Prize

  • p165 - author says MTL took a reagent from Goodman's lab and published before them
  • p165 first "falsified panels" paper in Cell 1999, two others in Science 2001
  • p165 - Richard Scheller (p110) Stanford 1982 to 2001, then Genentech

  • p165 - twenty years later, some colleagues said MTL had been nakedly careerist CITATION NEEDED
  • p166 - SLE Structured Liberal Education

  • p167 - +arancini stuffed fried breaded riceballs

  • p167 - dinner-mates say Sam Bankman-Fried directionally correct, "how do I get around this?"
  • p168 - "spilled AI tea"??? "dishing" sharing gossip
  • p168 - freshman with half-baked idea wanted NDA before discussing it with Rob Reich

  • p169 - idea secrecy paired with admissions of wrongdoing
  • p169 - "menage a trois" sandwiches

  • p169 - used Treehacks office after hours to serve corporate sponsors that The Stanford Daily would normally investigate
  • p170 - going to Genentech interview, Theo sees MTL coming the other way
  • p170 - walked out hours in a different universe. jackpot???
    • with dates and days missing, it is difficult to track author's timeline. Jackpot when and how?


  • p173 - ch. 9 - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION


  • p173 - 2009, MTL claims Alzheimer's was not amyloid beta, but N-APP fragment of APP binding to DR6 (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 21, TNRFS21)

  • p174 - RETRACTED ARTICLE: APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases

  • p175 - Big news splash, Genentech patents, fail to reproduce, fabricated data
  • p175 - MTL deliberately hid paper's manipulations
  • p176 - Genentech internal inquiry: not reproducable, "faked" using "made up" figures
  • p177 - MTL wouldn't retract, walked back claims in two lower-readership journals
  • p177 - +Anatoly Nikolaev

  • p177 - Promotions for Nikolaev, MTL to Chief Scientific Officer
  • p178 - Nikolaev left biotech, retrained at Michigan community college, Florida radiation oncologist
  • p179 - Genentech hired misconduct expert David Vaux

  • p179 - four senior Genentech people independently told the same story
  • p180 - Most sources offered deeply anguished views of MTK
  • p181 - MTL never retracted, continued to cite paper
  • p181 - MTL joined Regeneron board, highest paid in the S&P 500, earned $80M

  • p181 - MTL cofounded Denali Theraputics in 2017, largest biotech IPO of the year

  • p181 - MTL current net worth $500M
  • p182 - Theo shares writup with Washington Post science editor +Tracy Jan and +Glenn Kramon

  • p183 - Journalism advice: "Kill your darlings" - remove superfluous detail, even if brilliantly written
  • p184 - argues with Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania (p033)
  • p184 - Journalism lecturer +R. B. Brenner

  • p185 - DJing Disc jockey-ing (as a verb)

  • p185 - Daily staffer +Marie

  • p185 - Alondra Dorm mate +Sylvia
  • p185 - +Muwekma Ohlone bay area tribe

  • p186 - Sylvia and drunk friend +Darren
  • p186 - single sexiest college sentence: "I don't have a roommate"
  • p187 - Sergio again (p91) brilliant older friend and SLE resident tutor
  • p188 - Sam (Catania) editing Daily article

  • p189 - Daily board chair +Andrew Bridges attorney at Fenwick & West

  • p189 - +Ambika Kumar and +Eric Stahl at Davis Wright Tremaine

  • p190 - HFO / hold-for-order articles, prewrites

  • p190 - +Niko photographer

  • p191 - MTL's Volkswagen electric ID.4

  • p192 - Stanford Building 10 president's office

  • p194 - +Persis Drell provost

  • p196 - letter from attorney representing MTL


  • p197 - ch. 10 - The Good Paper


  • p197 - +Charles Keating Jr. swimmer / financier / felon / S&L crisis / $4.3B civil judgement

  • p198 - Lawyer +Steve Neal reversed Keating convictions

  • p199 - Cooley law firm represented Theranos +Elizabeth Holmes, now MTL

  • p199 - Threatening letter to Theo
  • p201 - 2009 N-APP paper described as incorrect in 2014 by MTL
  • p203 - +Matthew Schrag Vanderbilt professor uncovered rampant fraud about a different Alzheimer's study

  • p204 - Schrag discovered that his mentor +Othman Ghrigbi had manipulated data

  • p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo
  • p204 - the panel had been 100% confident that [the issues] weren't innocent
  • p205 - Theo missing classes, Stanford resident director +Kenneth Graham concerned

  • p207 - MTL "Let me underscore this: the data were reproducible", referencing papers that did not replicate MTL's 2009 N-APP-DR6 binding claim

  • p207 - +Ryan Watts MTL's "Denali" cofounder

  • p207 - reference to a Biogen paper published by "Nature Medicine' - cannot find citation
  • p208 - in second interview, Nikolaev claims 2009 paper doesn't mention Alzheimer's, actually 31 times including abstract
  • p208 - four Genentech senior members whose recollections matched
  • p208 - +Phil Taubman NYT correspondent, wife +Felicity Barringer Stanford Daily editors in the 1970s

  • p210 - +Fritz Bittenbender Genentech VP public affairs

    • asked for documents to help with due diligence
  • p211 - +John Darnton calls, 2022 Polk Award for Theo, youngest winner ever

  • p213 - +Cameron Duran professional layout man at Stanford Daily

  • p214 - Sam to printers: "let's spring for the good paper"



  • p216 - Bill Grueskin Columbia professor and former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal

  • p216 - "Every paragraph is a grenade, except for the ones that are 1000 pound bombs"
  • p218 - replica Hewlett Packard shed inside Huang Center
  • p219 - MTL letter did not mention that his own colleagues made the allegations in the paper
  • p221 - Bobby Fuller Four 1965 Let Her Dance

  • p221 to p224 Stanford treehacks

  • p225 - four hours of sleep in 64 hours, collapse and temporary amnesia
  • p227 - Andrej Karpathy

  • p227 - Ali Partovi code.org


  • p229 - ch. 12 - Solve for People


  • p230 - +Jeremy Freese data science?? professor? WP says sociologist

  • p231 - professors would hang up after their group calls and call Theo with details
  • p232 - corroborating email to Stanford board chair +Jerry Yang

  • p234 - Jägermeister German spiced digestif liqueur

  • p235 - +Ed Tufte

  • p235 - + Philip, Chicago attorney
  • p236 - Science Holden Thorp called regularly

  • p236 - +Kenneth Shultz, chair of the Stanford faculty senate

  • p237 - "Secret society founded by a famous billionaire"; Peter Thiel's Dialog?? https://dialog.org/

  • p240 - Letters with questions to MTL only mis-answered by lawyer Neal
  • p241 - incorrect email from radiology professor +Garry Gold

  • p242 - Email from MTL friend Richard Scheller, from anger "I do not recall"


  • p243 - ch. 13 - Free to Speak


  • p243 - spring, floaties in fountains

  • p244 - faculty senate meeting including +Condoleezza Rice to remove +Rupert Murdoch and +Rebekah Mercer from board of Hoover Institution

  • p245 - Academic Senate Chair +Ken Schultz

  • p245 - professor +Joe Lipsick "I will ask the student newspaper to publish the entire conversation"

  • p245 - Hoover Fellow +Henry Kissinger "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"

  • p247 - During COVID, MTL voted to censure Trump advisor and Hoover Fellow +Scott Atlas

  • p248 - +David Cheriton computer science prof with $20B stake in many student companies

  • p249 - +Lucas Duplan

  • p249 - +Mehran Sahami

  • p249 - +Jim Breyer

  • p249 - +Richard Branson

  • p249 - +Ken Auletta

  • p250 - MTL "look of pure hatred", told that MTL could be intimidating
  • p251 - Genentech pursuing a $46B acquisition deal by Roche

  • p251 - in 2009, Genentech pursuing 12 year legal monopoly for ?
  • p251 - Genentech 2009 emergency FDA authorization of Avstatin to treat metastatic breast cancer, subsequent research showed it ineffective

  • p251 - NYT found nearly identical statements from 42 congressmen lobbying the FDA for Genentech
  • p252 - ineffective for "countless breast cancer patients", delayed authorization revocation until 2011
  • p253 - Richard Scheller (p110)
  • p253 - gRED: Genentech Research and Early Development division, director also urged 2009 paper retraction
  • p254 - Genentech statement: "Prior to publication of the paper, employees other than the author performed binding experiments that showed inconsistent results", contrary to subseqent statements by MTL
  • p255 - Nature formal expression of concern


  • p257 - ch. 14 - No Room for Error


  • p257 - Theo's other grandfather Eleftherios Peter Baker (Pappouzi) +dies 2023

  • p258 - Polk Awards Ceremony ... 17? categories

  • p258 - +Lynsey Addario photojournalist also Polk Award recipient

  • p259 - +Ben Pauker colleague of Theo Baker's mother

  • p260 - Theo finds oxycodone left by his grandfather, "popped a few pills", wave of crashing warmth, takes bottle with him to school (KL: against the law and common sense)

  • p261 - Theo frets, insecure, takes more oxycodone, overdose
  • p261 - Theo slurs, heart slows down, uses "gift" Narcan in dorm room, alone

  • p262 - mute and paralyzed
  • p263 - threw up for hours, shaking, finally slept
  • p263 - dumpstered the pills in the morning (toilet not good enough?), later told a doctor what happened


  • p265 - ch. 15 - Money Is a Rush


  • p265 - Stanford provost Persis Drell resigns, MTL not allowed by board to choose successor

  • p266 - Condi Rice former Stanford provost, as was +Frederick Terman

  • p269 - Hummingbird VC

  • p270 - +"Lyle who served as class president for his year" Citation Needed
  • p271 - Stanford Highly Incompetent Team S.H.I.T. building race car, "A balloon would be above our budget"
  • p271 - 24 Hours of LeMons

  • p271 - +Nathan, +Helen, +Mick
  • p272 - +Cole, crazy claims, all true. 1800 Elo chess rating

  • p273 - +Anya "A yacht party is, like, a central Stanford experience"
  • p274 - TreeHacks swag

  • p274 - TreeHacks teammate +John (not Darnton?)

  • p275 - !Chris CS homework signing "Declaration: I did not use ChatGPT", with ChatGPT open in a split window


  • p279 - ch. 16 - Finis Origine Pendet


  • p279 - world famous researcher, off record: ... fraud by first author

  • p280 - Russian dissident +Alexei Navalny's exiled investigators tracking oligarchs evading sanctions.

  • p281 - +Jeffrey Flier lack of witness confidentiality "extremely unusual"

  • p283 - 95 page report on secure website, only screenshots, no download
  • p285 - several papers based on manipulated data, but MTL seemingly absolved by cover letter
  • p285 - MTL said he had not been able to provide adequate explanation for failure to correct the scientific record
  • p286 - panel recommended all five papers be retracted or substantially corrected, MTL retracted 3 and corrected 2
  • p286 - panel concluded three papers falsified
  • p288 - Theo finishes writing, gets two messages from national publications about MTL resigning
  • p289 - +Richard Saller becomes interim president

  • p290 - actual board decision a month prior to announcement
  • p291 - there was no pro-MTL camp at the endGene Sykes
  • p291 - the panel had not bought any of MTL's excuses
  • p293 - MTL demanded 6 month continued use of presidential mansion; received 7-figure payout
  • p294 - Stanford is supposed to look perfect


  • p295 - Coda


  • p295 sophomore year, Theo interviews interim president Saller.
  • p296 also replaced provost, dean of research, head of undergraduate education, and head of student affairs
  • p296 co-chair +Gene Sykes

  • p297 end of "fake-it-till-you-make-it" and War on Fun
  • p298 - +Fei-Fei Li and +Christopher Manning left for private sector

  • p300 - across scientific publishing, four studies are retracted for every ten thousand published
  • p300 - Holden Thorp at Science announced that journals would use forensic tools to detect manipulation

  • p301 - New MTL company Xiara

  • p302 - Theo offered funding if he wanted to start a company.


  • p303 - Acknowledgements


  • hundreds more names


  • p309 - NOTES


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