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.