Ryan Holiday on Peter Thiel’s open-mindedness "Thiel's default state is to embody contradiction. Doing so is what makes him such a brilliant investor, considering each trade and investment anew from a dozen perspectives, seeing what others aren't able to see and doing it on a regenerative basis. A friend would say that 'Peter is of two minds on everything. If you were able to open his skull, you would see a number of Mexican standoffs between powerful antagonistic ideas you wouldn't think could be safely housed in the same brain'"