- Jan Frodeno – Jan Frodeno is the first person ever to have won gold at the Olympic Games (2008 in Beijing) and a victory at Ironman Hawaii.
- Paul Graham – OG of Y Combinator, favourite blog article is “How To Get Startup Ideas“
- George Hotz – Founder comma.ai, Controversial thinker, love his twitch streams
- Julia Galef – Rationalist, love her Youtube videos, read her book “The Scout Mindset“
- Sam Altman – Another YC OG, CEO of OpenAI
- Miyamoto Musashi – Legendary Japanese swordsman, wrote the The Book of Five Rings & Dokkōdō
- Marcus Aurelius – Roman emperor, known for stoicism
- Claude Shannon – Father of Information Theory aka why you have digital devices
- David Goggins – Watch Goggins once and you want to run an Ultramarathon. Stay Hard!
- Ludovico Einaudi – Favorite Musician
- Lex Fridman – Has great guests on his podcast
- Tim Urban – Favourite blog author (Wait But Why)
- Elon Musk – Nothing to add here
- Richard Feynman – Famous physicist who also had many other hobbys. Can recommend this book
- Aaron Swartz – The Internet’s Own Boy. Died too young
- Alexandra Elbakyan – Founder of Sci-Hub. Open-Source education for everyone.
- Andrew Huberman – There are not many trusted sources about health and co but this is gold
- Reid Hoffman – Co-Founder of LinkedIn, knows a lot about scaling startups
- Peter Thiel – Paypal Mafia. The most original thinker about business and the world I know
- Demis Hassabis – Co-Founder of DeepMind
- Michael Seibel – YC OG. His advice is always the best one can get
- Zach Zeiler – Gym dude. From cancer to beast
- Eliezer Yudkowsky – AI researcher. Read “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”
- Joscha Bach – Cognitive scientist. Watch his interview with Lex
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