a personal collection
Examples
People worth following.
Ideas worth spending time with.
Builders, musicians, scientists, and organizations that caught my attention. A growing collection, curated by @ben. Open a profile to explore their work and the evidence behind it.
60 examples to explore
- architecture
Eugene TssuiThe evolutionary architect who builds like nature doesexplore profile - building
Patrick CollisonStripe co-founder; progress studies and the craft of speedexplore profile - architecture
Christopher AlexanderA Pattern Language and the quality without a nameexplore profile - science & ideas
Michael LevinBioelectricity, morphogenesis, and unconventional mindsexplore profile - science & ideas
Joscha BachSynthetic intelligence and computational theories of mindexplore profile - science & ideas
Stephen WolframComputation as the foundation of physicsexplore profile - computing
Terry A. DavisTempleOS and the single-author operating systemexplore profile - building
37signalsBasecamp, HEY, and the long-running case against venture capitalexplore profile - computing
Alan KaySmalltalk, the Dynabook, and computing's unrealized revolutionexplore profile - computing
Amelia WattenbergerData visualization and interfaces beyond the chat boxexplore profile - writing & media
Anil DashBlogger since 1999; Six Apart, Glitch, and the first NFTexplore profile - computing
Andrej KarpathyCS231n to Tesla AI to Eureka Labs; teacher of the fieldexplore profile - music
Bad BunnyFrom grocery bagging to the most-streamed artist aliveexplore profile - music
BjörkIceland's one-woman R&D lab; the app-as-albumexplore profile - computing
Bret VictorInventing on Principle; Dynamicland and tools for thoughtexplore profile - music
Brian EnoAmbient inventor; Oblique Strategies and sceniusexplore profile - computing
Bryan CantrillDTrace, Oxide, and the rack-scale cloud computerexplore profile - music
BurialUntrue; the anonymous heart of UK garageexplore profile - music
Caterina BarbieriBuchla modular composer; patterns of ecstatic computationexplore profile - building
Conor White-SullivanRoam Research and networked thoughtexplore profile - writing & media
Cory DoctorowCoined enshittification; EFF and the pluralistic canonexplore profile - music
Dan SnaithCaribou and Daphni; a math PhD on the dance floorexplore profile - music
Daniel LopatinOneohtrix Point Never; Eccojams to the Safdie scoresexplore profile - computing
David CrawshawGo's mobile stack, Tailscale, and exe.devexplore profile - building
David Heinemeier HanssonRails, 37signals, and the majestic monolithexplore profile - computing
Dax RaadSST, terminal.shop, and the opencode agentexplore profile - writing & media
Dwarkesh PatelLong-form interviews with the people building AIexplore profile - writing & media
Dylan PatelSemiAnalysis and the physics of AI infrastructureexplore profile - computing
Geoffrey HuntleyReactiveUI, Ralph loops, and engineering in the agent eraexplore profile - computing
Geoffrey LittMalleable software and local-first researchexplore profile - computing
George Hotzgeohot; iPhone unlock, comma.ai, tinygradexplore profile - building
Greg BrockmanOpenAI co-founder and Stripe's first CTOexplore profile - science & ideas
Gwerngwern.net; self-experiments and the scaling hypothesisexplore profile - music
HyperdubKode9's label — dubstep's outlier wing, from Burial to footworkexplore profile - computing
Jane Manchun WongThe definitive leaker of unreleased app featuresexplore profile - computing
Johannes SchicklingPrisma, LiveStore, and the local-first stackexplore profile - building
Joel SpolskyJoel on Software, Stack Overflow, and Trelloexplore profile - computing
Linus LeeIndependent research on tools for thoughtexplore profile - science & ideas
The Long Now FoundationBrand, Hillis, and Eno's 10,000-year bet on long-term thinkingexplore profile - music
Lorenzo SenniPointillistic trance — euphoria without the dropexplore profile - computing
Mario ZechnerlibGDX, pi, and opinionated minimal coding agentsexplore profile - writing & media
Matt LevineMoney Stuff; everything is securities fraudexplore profile - computing
Mitchell HashimotoHashiCorp co-founder; now building Ghosttyexplore profile - building
Oxide Computer CompanyCantrill, Frazelle, and Tuck's rack-scale cloud computerexplore profile - writing & media
Patrick McKenziepatio11; Kalzumeus, Stripe, and Bits About Moneyexplore profile - writing & media
Paul GrahamViaweb, Y Combinator, and the essay canonexplore profile - computing
Peter SteinbergerFrom PSPDFKit to OpenClawexplore profile - building
Pieter Levelslevelsio; Nomad List, Photo AI, and building in publicexplore profile - music
Richard D. JamesAphex Twin; self-mythology as an instrumentexplore profile - computing
Riley WalzJmail, Bop Spotter, and public-data stuntsexplore profile - building
Roam ResearchThe networked-thought tool; a note graph as cult objectexplore profile - computing
Simon WillisonDjango co-creator; Datasette and prompt injectionexplore profile - computing
Steph AngoObsidian's CEO; file over appexplore profile - computing
Steve YeggeStevey's rants, platforms, and AI transformationexplore profile - science & ideas
Stewart BrandWhole Earth Catalog and the Long Nowexplore profile - computing
Thomas PtacekMatasano, Cryptopals, and applied securityexplore profile - computing
Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the Web; Solid and the fight to reclaim itexplore profile - music
Tim HeckerNoise, texture, and sacred spaceexplore profile - science & ideas
Tyler CowenMarginal Revolution, Emergent Ventures, and the great stagnationexplore profile - computing
Yacine Brahimikache; dingboard and viral client-side experimentsexplore profile
Dated, revisable models made from public evidence. These examples are interpretations, not endorsements by the people featured. Portrait credits · Photo credits.