A few years ago I discovered Peter Thiel. Many of his ideas are very revealing to me, but it wasn't so much that I felt my world shoock, but rather that he was able to formulate ideas in an extensive manner that I felt I had somewhere in the back of my head as well. He also has some completely new approaches and ideas that I find really inspiring.
"Tell me something is that is true that very few people agree with you on" - Peter Thiel
Is something he gives as advice for founders of new companies, but I think it is actually a rule that I followed in philosophy and politics all my life. The thoughts I have that many disagree on were always much more important to me than the discussion of opinions that were widely agreed with.
Thiel focuses a lot on economics and technology, but you can also find comments on society and politics made by him.
One concept that he advocates, that I have adopted and often run into backlash with:
We live in a world of technological stagnation apart from maybe digital technologies. He explains his statement in detail in the following video. My reaction to his statement was "damn he is right!" - I always love to point out how much innovation 'back to the future' promised - but I think there might be a lot of you who disagree, so maybe I will make a post in the future explaining on detail why I think he is right on this statement.
If you have not figured it out by now, he also identifies as a Libertarian.
What do you think of this man and his ideas? To me he is one of the few inspirational Philosophers of our modern age.