Conspiracy - Ryan Holiday ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/264236447/diRT8nDfwZ0jmTorIcQTHQVmAIebLHc7EfJiZ9qS2Vc-cove_3cuTqAx.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: **Ryan Holiday** - Full Title: Conspiracy - Category: #books ## Highlights - The conflict at the heart of this story is no different. Its genesis is a largely obvious, mostly unremarkable blog post—not even four hundred words long—that outed a little-known technology investor as homosexual. Written by a gossip blogger named Owen Thomas, for a now-defunct tech news website owned by Gawker called *Valleywag*, the piece was published at 7:05 p.m. on December 19, 2007, under a headline that would sear itself into the mind of its subject: *Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People.* ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkggmekmppnpq2mdn8wr6vmb))