The people behind the efforts, books, and ideas I follow.
People
110 items under this folder.
People · 110
- Adam WigginsCo-founder of Ink & Switch, independent research lab for digital creativity tools
Albert-Laszlo BarabasiDistinguished University Professor, Director of Center for Network Science at Northeastern University
Alexandra HorowitzCognitive scientist, author, Senior Research Fellow at Barnard College- Alexei KurakinSenior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, specializing in ML security and differential privacy
- Andreas StuhlmüllerCofounder & CEO of Elicit; cognitive scientist specializing in AI reasoning and machine learning
- Andrei BorshchevFounder & CEO of The AnyLogic Company
- Andrés Gómez EmilssonFounder and Director of Research, Qualia Research Institute; consciousness researcher
- Andy MatuschakSoftware engineer, designer, and researcher focused on tools for thought; formerly at Apple and Khan Academy
Ayn RandRussian-American writer and philosopher, author of The Fountainhead (1943)
Boyan SlatFounder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup- Bren SmithOcean farmer, regenerative aquaculture pioneer, GreenWave founder
- Brendan FongCo-founder and CEO of Topos Institute; researcher in applied category theory
Bret VictorInterface designer, computer scientist, researcher at Dynamicland- Brian HieAssistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University; Innovation Investigator at Arc Institute
- Casey HandmerFounder and CEO of Terraform Industries
Cesar HidalgoPhysicist and economic complexity researcher; Professor at Toulouse School of Economics; Director of Center for Collective Learning
Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist, geologist, and biologist (1809-1882)- Chris ShankCo-founder of folkjs research lab
- Colin MegillFounder and CEO of Pol.is, co-creator of computational democracy platform
- Conor White-SullivanCEO and Cofounder of Roam Research
- Daniel SchmachtenbergerSocial philosopher and civilization researcher; founder of The Consilience Project and Civilization Research Institute
- David ChapmanWriter, computer scientist, and metarationality theorist
David DeutschBritish physicist, quantum computing pioneer, visiting professor at University of Oxford- David HolzFounder & CEO of Midjourney
David SpivakMathematician, co-founder of Topos Institute, senior scientist- Devon ZuegelFounder of Esmeralda Institute and creator of Edge Esmeralda annual prototype village
Doug EngelbartAmerican engineer and inventor, pioneer of human-computer interaction
Douglas HofstadterCognitive science and computer science professor; author of Gödel, Escher, Bach- Duarte de ZoetenCo-founder of Mossy Earth (rewilding and reforestation)
Eliezer YudkowskyAI researcher, founder of MIRI, author of Inadequate Equilibria- Eric DahlgrenCo-founder and CEO of Aircela (fossil-free fuel synthesis)
- Fumitake KogaProfessional writer and author
- Gator HalpernCo-founder and President of Coral Vita, marine conservation entrepreneur
- Geoff ManaughWriter, architect, founder of BLDGBLOG, author of A Burglar's Guide to the City
- Geoffrey LittDesign Engineer at Notion; researcher on malleable software and end-user programming
Geoffrey WestShannan Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute- Gianluca AmbrosettiCo-founder and Co-CEO of Synhelion (solar fuels)
- Gordon BranderFounder/developer of Deep Future (scenario planning AI); software engineer; writer
- Gregor HodgsonMarine ecologist, Founder of Reef Check Foundation
- Hanson ChengCo-founder and CEO of The Tyre Collective; interdisciplinary designer and entrepreneur
- Ichirō KishimiJapanese philosopher and psychologist, author of The Courage To Be Disliked
- Isaac WilksCo-founder of Human Chemical Co (AI for chemical safety assessment)
Ivan IllichAustrian philosopher, theologian, and social critic (1926–2002)
James C. ScottPolitical scientist and anthropologist; Sterling Professor at Yale University- Jean-Luc DoumontCommunication expert, founder of Principiae, author of Trees, Maps, and Theorems
- Jeff Bezos
- Joe HildrethCo-founder and Creative Director, Acorn Land Labs
Kamal PatelNutrition researcher, co-founder and director of Examine.com- Kemble HildrethFounder of Acorn Land Labs; CEO of Live Oak Computer Science; off-grid systems researcher
- Kenneth O. StanleyAI researcher, inventor of NEAT; author of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kevin KellyAuthor, Senior Maverick at Wired, co-founder of Wired magazine, co-chair of The Long Now Foundation
Lee Kuan Yew1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–1990), founding father, author of 'From Third World to First'- Marcin JakubowskiFounder and Executive Director of Open Source Ecology
- Mark Twain
- Matt DaviesCo-founder of Mossy Earth (rewilding and reforestation)
- Matthew B. CrawfordPhilosopher, writer, and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia
- Matthew SyedAuthor, journalist, broadcaster, and former Olympic table tennis player
- Mattson ThiemeCo-Founder & CTO, Human Chemical (AI for chemical hazard assessment)
- Max KriegerDesigner and researcher interested in computational thinking, interfaces, and epistemic tools
- Mia DahlgrenCo-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Aircela
- Michael Edward JohnsonTheoretical neuroscientist and philosopher; co-founder of Qualia Research Institute (left 2022); founding Symmetry Institute
Michael NielsenQuantum physicist, science writer, and author of "Reinventing Discovery"- Michael ZarghamCo-founder of cadCAD, CEO and Chief Engineer at BlockScience, systems engineer and applied mathematician
- Mojca ZupanFounder and CEO of PlanetCare
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nassim Nicholas TalebMathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst, author
Nat FriedmanFounder of PlasticList; technology executive and investor
Naval RavikantCo-founder and Chairman of AngelList, angel investor
Nick SousanisComics author, educator, and scholar; Associate Professor at SF State University- Orion ReedResearcher at Ink & Switch; co-founder of folkjs exploring malleable software interfaces
- patio11Software developer, entrepreneur, and Stripe advisor
Patrick CollisonCo-founder of Stripe and Arc Institute; advancing scientific research in biology- Patrick HsuCo-founder at Arc Institute, Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Paul AllenMicrosoft co-founder, philanthropist, founder of Allen Coral Atlas
Paul GrahamEnglish-American programmer, venture capitalist, essayist; founder of Y Combinator- Paul WaddellFounder & CEO of UrbanSim; Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley
Peter ThielVenture capitalist, entrepreneur, PayPal and Palantir co-founder
Peter WattsCanadian biologist and science fiction author- Philipp FurlerCEO and Co-Founder of Synhelion
- Randol AikinCEO and founder of Remedy Scientific; physicist with PhD from Caltech
Rene GirardFrench historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science; developed mimetic theory
Rich HickeyCreator of Clojure programming language and Datomic database- Richard Branson
Robert M. SapolskyAmerican neuroendocrinology researcher, author of Behave, Stanford professor- Rory AronsonFounder and CEO of FarmBot Inc
- Sam TeicherCo-Founder and Chief Reef Officer, Coral Vita
- Sandra BlakesleeScience writer and neuroscience correspondent for The New York Times
- Sanjoy MahajanPhysicist, mathematician, and author; Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College
- Scott AlexanderPsychiatrist, blogger, creator of Astral Codex Ten
Scott McCloudAmerican cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics- Silvana KonermannCo-founder & Executive Director of Arc Institute; Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford
- Siobhan AndersonCo-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Tyre Collective
Sol OrwellCo-founder of Examine.com, health and nutrition information platform
Stephen HawkingTheoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author- Steve YeggeAmerican computer programmer and software engineer specializing in AI coding assistants
Steven H. StrogatzMathematician and science communicator at Cornell University
Steven Strogatzmathematician, Cornell professor of applied mathematics and science communication
Terence McKennaEthnobotanist, author, and lecturer on psychedelics, shamanism, and consciousness- Thomas Edison
- Thomas LuechtefeldCEO and founder of Insilica, AI toxicology researcher
Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Web, founder of W3C
Tristan GooleyBritish writer and natural navigator; author of nature interpretation books
V. S. RamachandranDistinguished Professor of Psychology at UCSD, Director of Center for Brain and Cognition, neuroscientist
Vannevar BushElectrical engineer, science administrator, author of 'As We May Think'
Venkatesh RaoAuthor, consultant, and blogger (Ribbonfarm)
Viktor E. FranklAustrian psychiatrist, philosopher, Holocaust survivor; founder of logotherapy; author of Man's Search for Meaning- Visakan VeerasamyAuthor, marketing consultant, entrepreneur
- Voltaire
- W. Timothy GallweyAuthor, sports coach, founder of the Inner Game methodology
- Yaroslav ShipilovFounder of PlasticList