After entering the workforce, I haven’t read many books in the last eight years. However, if I have time to read one, I would like to find a useful book for myself. I found some by searching Bill Gates’s recommended list of readings and some by popular rank of bookstores. In light of the above, most books I read are suitable to be recommended to everybody, though there are not many. However, the must-read one is “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel.
First of all, what is “Zero to One”? “Zero to One” is a concept about invention and breakthrough. “Zero to One” allows us to bring a new solution for difficulties we have faced now and for some difficulties in the future. “Zero to One” tries to solve the problems. On the other hand, “One to N” consumes the limited resources we have.
In Peter Thiel’s opinion, success is not from winning the competition but from inventing new technologies to improve our lives. For example, Google monopolized a smaller request of searching and then expanded the services. Now, searching is a common way when we use the Explorer online and Alphabet is a top IT company in the world. Did Google win on any battlefields? No! I believe that Google just avoided the competition and tried to optimize users’ experience on the Internet through innovations.
This book is more like some excerpts from Peter Thiel’s class at Stanford University. When you read this book, you will feel like you are reading some successful stories about startups, histories, business, management, and technology. It doesn’t matter if you are interested in these areas because all the topics are interesting and thought-provoking. I think everyone can enjoy this book regardless of what age they are. One more thing, this book is worth rereading again and again. I reread it four times and that’s why this book has already been recommended by many celebrities and I still marked it as my most-recommended one.
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