A list of people I’ve admired certain aspects of life from.
- Aristotle
- Marcus Aurelius
- Christian Bale
- Kobe Bryant
- Chen Long
- Albert Einstein
- Richard Feynman
- Henry Ford
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Edwin Land
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Akio Morita
- Elon Musk
- Rafael Nadal
- Jon von Neumann
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Carl Sagan
- Socrates
- Nikola Tesla
- Alan Turing
- Kane Williamson
A list of people whose work I closely follow
- Cleo Abram (YouTube, X)
- Pieter Abbeel (Scholar, X)
- Sam Altman (X)
- Dario Amodei (Scholar, X)
- Marc Andreessen (X)
- Peter Attia (X)
- Gwern Branwen (X)
- Greg Brockman (X)
- Marques Brownlee (YouTube, X)
- John Carmack (X)
- Emily Chang (X)
- Patrick Collison (X)
- Jeff Dean (Scholar, X)
- David Deutsch (X)
- Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
- Chelsea Finn (Scholar, X)
- Nat Friedman (X)
- Bill Gates (X)
- Elad Gil (X)
- Ben Gilbert (Podcast, X)
- Ian Goodfellow (Scholar, X)
- Paul Graham (X)
- Daniel Gross (X)
- Casey Handmer (X)
- Johnny Harris (YouTube, X)
- Demis Hassabis (Scholar, X)
- Dan Hendrycks (Scholar, X)
- Ben Thompson (Twitter)
- Andrew Huberman (X)
- Walter Isaacson (X)
- Bryan Johnson (X)
- Andrej Karpathy (Scholar, X)
- Salman Khan (X)
- Jarrod Kimber (X)
- Zico Kolter (Scholar, X)
- Sriram Krishnan (X)
- Matt Levine (X)
- Jan Leike (Scholar, X)
- Amjad Masad (X)
- Elon Musk (X)
- Satya Nadella (X)
- Andrew Ng (Scholar, X)
- Michael Nielsen (Scholar, X)
- Chris Olah (Scholar, X)
- Dwarkesh Patel (Twitter)
- Dylan Patel (Twitter)
- Carl Pei (Twitter)
- Kelsey Piper (Twitter)
- Alec Radford (Scholar, Twitter)
- David Rosenthal (Podcast, Twitter)
- Grant Sanderson (Twitter)
- John Schulman (Scholar, Twitter)
- David Senra (Podcast, Twitter)
- Noam Shazeer (Scholar, Twitter)
- David Silver (Scholar)
- Justin Skycak (Twitter)
- Aravind Srinivas (Scholar, Twitter)
- Balaji Srinivasan (Twitter)
- Edward Snowden (Twitter)
- Ilya Sutskever (Scholar, Twitter)
- Richard Sutton (Scholar, Twitter)
- Peter Thiel (Twitter)
- Tim Urban (Twitter)
- Lilian Weng (Scholar, Twitter)
I’m constantly surprised by the number of amazing people that I cannot believe I didn’t know about. This will be certainly true for the considerable future and this list will continuously be updated.