People

People and ideas:

• Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Richard K Bernstein.
• Jiri Lev.
• patrickcollison.com/fast
• Elon Musk – for determination. Biography.
• A Master Class in Jazz Performance. The Taste Gap
• The Century of the Self. The Path Matters.
• Steve Jobs – art, obsession.
• Self-reliance – Ralph essay.
• Naval – for his mental models on modern capitalism.
• Singapore’s LKW.
• Sam Altman – one of few deep thinkers. blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful ia.samaltman.com
• Richard Stallman / Linux. He protected against enshittification of technology before it even began.
• George Hotz – for enlightening me to economics and AI.
• Richard Feynmann. The Myth of The Objective.
• Paul Graham - essays.
• Ray Dalio.
• Taleb.
• Peter Thiel – for his capital mental models. Zero to One.
• Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged.
• Elad Gil - for thinking deeply about startups.
• Federico Carrone - highest integrity, intelligence person I know. Someone I really admire.
• Bryan Johnson – Don’t Die.
• Figma founder. Gwern.
• Sapiens
• Can a biologist fix a radio?
• Jeff Dean. Built some of my favourite distributed systems.