Humans
Being a human myself, I can't but be amazed and inspired by what other people have both created before me and are creating right now.
I have many interests and I find studying and looking into people who have spent their time studying some of these topics is a really good investment of my time. It's also quite amazing that nowadays you can potentially message a person whose work you like and sometimes they can respond.
I maintain a list of awesome humans across different disciplines.
I am trying to meet as many people I find interesting as possible to get to know them more. I find what many podcasters are doing with publishing open interviews like Lex Friedman does fascinating. Reaching out cold to people you admire is nearly always a good idea especially if you have something actionable in mind, like advice or opportunity to discuss. And if you don't, a simple compliment goes a long way. In the end of the day, people will never forget how you made them feel.
Interesting interviews
- Tools & Craft Podcast: Andy Matuschak
- DevOps Chat with HashiCorp's CTO
- Jeff Bezos At The Economic Club Of Washington (2018)
- Linus Torvalds (2018)
- Interview with Nils Frahm
- Interview with Charles Hoskinson Founder of IOHK and Cardano (2018)
- Leaving Google and Going Indie — An interview with Daniel Alm
- Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden (2019) (HN)
- Devine Lu Linvega: I Have Been Living and Coding on a Sailboat Since 2016 (2019)
- 114 Тёплый выпуск с Дэном Абрамовым (2019)
- A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)
- Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) (HN)
- Life, Death and the Monster (John Conway)
- Third Row Tesla Podcast – Elon Musk's Story (2020)
- Elon Musk - Joe Rogan (2021) (Reddit)
- A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)
- Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community (2016) (Notes)
- Creative challenges with Alyssa X
- The Observer Effect – Daniel Ek (2020)
- The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen
- The Steve Jobs 95 Interview
- Interview with Patrick Collison (2021) (HN)
- Oral History of Dave Cutler (2018)
- Ezra Klein Interviews Ted Chiang (2021) (HN)
- Mads Mikkelsen, In Conversation (2021)
- Виктор Бабарико. Биография
- 73 Questions With Lorde (2021)
- A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram at the Wolfram Summer School 2021
- Anya Taylor-Joy: Working On The Queen’s Gambit Was An IRL Checkmate (2021)
- Anya Taylor-Joy on 90's Nostalgia, Going Barefoot, and "Tiny Dancer" | Ask Me Anything (2021)
- Full Elon Musk Interview CodeCon (2021)
- Notion interview with Alan Kay: On context and catalysts of personal computing (2021)
- Бардаш. Драки с женой и ее измена, отношения с Лободой, Кузьма, Дудь, Баста. В гостях у Гордона (2021)
- Elon Musk Interview (2013)
- Keanu Reeves interview 2021 - Keanu Reeves on Matrix Resurrection, John Wick, His Personal Life
- Kevin Systrom: Instagram (2021)
- An interview with 100 rabbits (2021)
- Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI (2021)
- Robert Pattinson Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ (2022)
- Marc Andreessen Twitter Q&A (2022)
- Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020) (HN)
- Olivia Cooke : What you don't know about me
- Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, how to think for yourself, good startup ideas and finding a co-founder (2022)
- Jeremy Strong On "Armageddon Time," And What "Succession" Says About America (2022)
Interesting bios
Personal workflows
Notes
Links
- Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper
- Awesome programmers
- Uses This - Collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done. (Code)
- /uses - List of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs. (HN)
- Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career? (2019)
- The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2019) (HN) (HN)
- WaitWho.is - Growing directory of people — and all of their best content in one place.
- View from the Top: Craig Federighi (2019) (Reddit)
- Remembering Don Valentine (HN)
- HN: John Conway has died (2020)
- The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories (2020)
- The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (2020) (HN)
- Everything is Fertile (2019)
- Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (1975) (HN)
- Humans of New York
- Brunello Cucinelli - billionaire founder of a $450 million fashion brand - ways of working (2020)
- Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro (2021)
- Pioneers – Tools & Craft – Notion - Conversations with the minds that shaped computing.
- Ninfex - People Powered Search. (HN)
- Alias - Alerts for your favorite people. (HN)
- 43 great biographies (2021)
- TIME 100: The Most Influential People of 2021
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power: Excerpt (2021)
- The Martians of Budapest (HN)
- Celebrating Steve (HN) (Reddit)
- A new biography of John von Neumann (2021) (HN)
- Bloomberg Billionaires Index
- The Top Female Founder In Every Country World Map (2021)
- Sakharov Prize - Wikipedia
- Individuals Matter (HN)
- The genius of John von Neumann (2021) (HN)
- The Bloomberg 50: The People Who Changed Global Business in 2021
- Best examples of someone having a successful "second act" in their career
- Biographics - YouTube
- Map with the most famous people from every city (HN)
- The Steve Jobs Archive (HN)
- The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You (2022) (HN) (Tweet)
- Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials
- Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal (2022) (HN)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - Wikipedia (HN)
- HN: Gordon Moore has died (2023)
- Rita Levi-Montalcini: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986