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Friends

People whose work I appreciate, across business, investing, technology, and the way we live.

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  • Jeremy Giffon

    Investing, business judgment, and unusual opportunities.

  • Derek Sivers

    Independence, intentional living, useful work, and questioning conventional definitions of success.

  • Cedric Chin

    Developing business judgment through actual cases and practice.

  • Patrick McKenzie

    Software, business, financial infrastructure, and Japan.

  • Simon Willison

    Practical AI experiments, clear explanations, and careful documentation.

  • Tim Gallwey

    Tennis, attention, and performing with less mental interference.

  • Martin Gurri

    Information, institutional authority, and public distrust.

  • Kapil Gupta

    Truth, self-understanding, and the mental obstacles to performance.

  • Oliver Burkeman

    Time, limits, and building a meaningful life without waiting to finish everything first.

  • Morgan Housel

    The human side of money, risk, ambition, and knowing what is enough.

  • Byrne Hobart

    Finance and technology examined through incentives, systems, and second-order effects.

  • Patrick O’Shaughnessy

    Investing, business quality, and thoughtful conversations with builders and investors.

  • Alex Danco

    Business models, technology, and connections between seemingly unrelated systems.

  • Tyler Cowen

    Economics, culture, and wide-ranging curiosity.

  • Arnold Kling

    Political disagreement, economic specialization, and the limits of centralized knowledge.

  • Jonathan Rauch

    Liberalism, pluralism, and the institutions that help people establish shared truths.

  • Jason Crawford

    Technological progress and the cultural conditions that let societies build and improve.

  • Paul Graham

    Independent thinking, making things, and understanding what makes businesses work.

  • Patrick Collison

    Scientific progress, institutional ambition, curiosity, and moving consequential work forward.

  • Jason Fried

    Running a business with restraint, clear product judgment, and less unnecessary complexity.

  • Ethan Mollick

    Using AI thoughtfully in real work and learning through experimentation.

  • Peter Yang

    Practical AI tutorials and product building.

  • Andrej Karpathy

    Understanding how AI works through clear teaching and hands-on technical exploration.

  • Andy Matuschak

    Learning, memory, and tools that help people understand and use what they read.

  • Nick Gray

    Friendship, hosting, personal websites, and deliberately creating a more interesting social life.

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