StanfordRuleWorld

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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

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• 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

• 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 / yearbutton cell phone with backspace

• 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 discussion and news feed platform

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• p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit

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• p054 - TreeHacks

• p055 - Sara

• p055 - Vedant p67 p81

• p058 - Ivan 23 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 - ASES Affiliated Stanford Entreprenuerial Students

• p065 Tessler-Lavigne- 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 - ch. 4 - Binary Bomb

• p073 - PubPeer

• p075 - Karsteh

• p076 - Therac-25

• p076 - Jerry Cain

• p077 - SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried

• p077 - Alameda Research

• p078 - Rob Reich

• p078 - Effective Altruism

• p080 - Elizabeth Holmes

• p080 - Tim Draper

• p080 - Stanford - The Game]] [[

• p080 - Do Kwon created cryptocurrencies Luna and TerraUSD

• p080 - Bowen and Monsees

• p081 - Juul

• p083 - Elizabeth Bik Biology's Image Detective

• p084 type 1: identical duplications . type 2: shifted or rotated . type 3 duplication of sections, most likely intentional alteration
• p085 - "level of alteration that suggests an intent to mislead"

• p086 - retracted 2001 MTL article in Science

• p087 - MTL ]button cell phone with backspace] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrin

• p087 - MTL UCSF, 2 years at Stanford, Genentech, 2011 President Rockefeller University 2016 President Stanford

• p087 - PubPeer, post publication peer review

• p088 - Bik: nearly 4% of published studies include problematic figures

• p088 - PubPeer and Retraction Watch blog

• p089 - CS107 Binary Bomb

• p090-91 Lily

• p091 - SergioRandy 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

• p095 - Michele graphics editor of Stanford Daily

• p095 - Dee Mostofi Stanford spokesperson

• p097 - Eric Stahl, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

• p099 - ch. 5 - A Fucking Menacebutton cell phone with backspace

• 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 Hynesbutton cell phone with backspace

• 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 facubutton cell phone with backspacelty

• 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
• 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 - 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

  • mother's professional friend, helped revive Foreign Policy magazine

• 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 T8aylor 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 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

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• p309 - NOTES