
In fact, in the knowledge-working world we live in, your best work will generally happen while you’re away from work. However, as will be shown, working 40 hours per week is optional, but certainly not optimal. If you worked 40 hours per week (40 hours X 4 weeks = 160 hours), you’d have 320 hours left.If you slept 8 hours per day (8 hours X 30 days = 240 hours), you’d have 480 hours left.The average month has 720 hours (30 days X 24 hours). Only then can you determine how long something really needs to take. Once you’ve answered that question, you’ll then be able to ask: Where is all of your time going? With his unique perspective and exclusive access to all the key players, Ryan Holiday transforms these events into both a dissection of that controversial word and methodology – conspiracy – and an eye-opening cautionary tale on the use, abuse and consequences of power and secrecy in the modern age.How much time does something really take to accomplish?īefore answering that question, a better question is: How much time do you actually have? It had been one of the most covered and surreal legal cases in history and no one had suspected a thing. These two seemingly unrelated events were in fact the bookends of a nearly decade-long plot masterminded by Thiel, for both obvious and non-obvious reasons. In 2016, Gawker was forced to declare bankruptcy after a $140 million dollar judgment in a Florida court over an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan with his best friend’s wife. In 2007, a short blog post on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley vertical of Gawker Media, outed the enigmatic Facebook and PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel as gay. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained.

Title: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker & the anatomy of intrigueĬonspiracy theories are legion.
