Thiel: Pursuing applied engineering careers was a mistake since late 1980s
Peter Thiel · Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For · Sep 13, 2024 · at 28:13
Peter Thiel explains the stagnation in physical world technologies (atoms) versus digital innovation (bits) starting from his time as a Stanford undergraduate.
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“In retrospect, any applied engineering field was a bad idea. It was a bad idea to become a chemical engineer, you know, a mechanical engineer. AeroAstro was terrible. Nuclear engineering.”
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