Brandon Spiess
  • Big Think - Actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.

  • WAIT BUT WHY - A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

  • Sam Altman - Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

  • Not Boring Co by Packy McCormick - Web3 and Startup Strategy, but not boring. Click to read Not Boring by Packy McCormick, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of readers.

  • Farnam Street Blog - Timeless lessons and insights that help you think better, learn faster, and make smart decisions.

  • Alexey Guzey - New Science, building new institutions of basic science, starting with the life sciences.

  • Edge - To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.

  • Kevin Kelly - Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review.

  • Vitalik Buterin’s website - Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.

  • Patrick Collison - Patrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe.

  • Max Hodak - Currently CEO of Science, a biology-driven technology company focused on the brain. Previously, he helped start Neuralink, where he served as President from inception through early 2021, and Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences, where he was CEO for the first five years.

  • Pirate Wires - technology, politics, culture.

  • Civilization Emerging by Daniel Schmachtenberger - Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.

  • Paul Graham - Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author.

  • Fred Ehrsam - Fred Ehrsam is the co-founder and managing partner of cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm. He is also the co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

  • Marginal Revolution - Tyler Cowen is an American economist, columnist and blogger. He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.

  • TheMoneyIllusion - A slightly off-center perspective on monetary problems.

  • Slate Star Codex - Slate Star Codex was a blog focused on science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism.

  • Econlib - We Cover The Bases When it Comes to Economics: Business, History, Education, & Theory.

  • LESSWRONG - A community blog devoted to refining the art of rationality.

  • 80,000 Hours - a London-based nonprofit organisation that conducts research on which careers have the largest positive social impact and provides career advice based on that research.

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