Patrick Collison

Source image by Village Global. Original image and attribution.

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Björk

Source image by Georges Biard. Original image and attribution.

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Alan Kay

Source image by David Weekly. Original image and attribution.

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Eugene Tssui

Source image by Joelbrandw at English Wikipedia. Original image and attribution.

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Michael Levin

Source image by John Templeton Foundation; screenshot uploaded by Shapeyness. Original image and attribution.

Cropped and prepared with the local shaded-pencil helper, then refined as an AI-assisted graphite illustration. Background simplified; resized for display.

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Christopher Alexander

Source image by Michaelmehaffy. Original image and attribution.

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Andrej Karpathy

Source image by Gladwin Analytics. Original image and attribution.

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Brian Eno

Source image by cosciansky. Original image and attribution.

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Amelia Wattenberger

Source image by Amelia Wattenberger via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Bret Victor

Source image by Bret Victor. Original image and attribution.

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Dan Snaith

Source image by AlexReynolds at English Wikipedia. Original image and attribution.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

Source image by David Heinemeier Hansson via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Dylan Patel

Source image by SemiAnalysis. Original image and attribution.

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Official-site image; no open reuse license stated

Jane Manchun Wong

Source image by Jane Manchun Wong via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Joscha Bach

Source image by Joscha Bach. Original image and attribution.

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Mario Zechner

Source image by Game Dev Days — Mario Zechner speaker profile. Original image and attribution.

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Patrick McKenzie

Source image by Patrick McKenzie via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Simon Willison

Source image by Simon Willison via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Steve Yegge

Source image by Steve Yegge via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Caterina Barbieri

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George Hotz

Source image by Steve Jennings/Getty Images. Original image and attribution.

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Tyler Cowen

Source image by Tyler Cowen. Original image and attribution.

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HTTP://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY-SA/3.0

Thomas Ptacek

Source image by Chris Fournier (cfournie). Original image and attribution.

Source image interpreted as an AI-assisted graphite sketch. Background simplified and portrait resized for display.

CC BY/2.0

Pieter Levels

Source image by Pieter Levels / levels.io. Original image and attribution.

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Anil Dash

Source image by Norman Posselt. Original image and attribution.

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CC BY-SA/4.0

Bryan Cantrill

Source image by Brian Solis. Original image and attribution.

Source image interpreted as an AI-assisted graphite sketch. Background simplified and portrait resized for display.

CC BY/2.0

Conor White-Sullivan

Source image by Conor White-Sullivan via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Daniel Lopatin

Source image by Warp Records. Original image and attribution.

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Geoffrey Huntley

Source image by Geoffrey Huntley. Original image and attribution.

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Greg Brockman

Source image by Greg Brockman via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Joel Spolsky

Source image by Katie Chan. Original image and attribution.

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Linus Lee

Source image by Linus Lee via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Matt Levine

Source image by Matt Levine / mattlevine.co. Original image and attribution.

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Paul Graham

Source image by Crédit photo: Sarah Harlin. Original image and attribution.

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Public domain

Richard D. James

Source image by Blackphoenix94. Original image and attribution.

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CC BY-SA/4.0

Stewart Brand

Source image by Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA. Original image and attribution.

Source image interpreted as an AI-assisted graphite sketch. Background simplified and portrait resized for display.

CC BY/2.0

Tim Berners-Lee

Source image by Summit. Original image and attribution.

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CC BY/4.0

Steph Ango

Source image by Steph Ango via Dribbble. Original image and attribution.

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Public profile or interview image; no open reuse license stated

Dax Raad

Source image by Local-First Podcast. Original image and attribution.

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Public profile or interview image; no open reuse license stated

Yacine Brahimi

Source image by Yacine Brahimi via https://x.com/yacineMTB. Original image and attribution.

Public avatar interpreted as an AI-assisted graphite drawing, preserving the chosen avatar rather than depicting a face.

Official public profile image; no open reuse license stated

Bad Bunny

Source image by Toglenn. Original image and attribution.

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Burial

Source image by Burial / Hyperdub. Original image and attribution.

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Cory Doctorow

Source image by Dominik Butzmann / re:publica. Original image and attribution.

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David Crawshaw

Source image by David Crawshaw via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Dwarkesh Patel

Source image by DwarkeshPod. Original image and attribution.

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Geoffrey Litt

Source image by Geoffrey Litt via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Gwern Branwen

Source image by Gwern Branwen via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Johannes Schickling

Source image by Johannes Schickling via localfirst.fm. Original image and attribution.

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Lorenzo Senni

Source image by Warp Records. Original image and attribution.

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Mitchell Hashimoto

Source image by Mitchell Hashimoto via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Peter Steinberger

Source image by Peter Steinberger via GitHub. Original image and attribution.

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Stephen Wolfram

Source image by Stephen Wolfram's PR team/Stephen Faust. Original image and attribution.

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Terry A. Davis

Source image by Terry A. Davis. Original image and attribution.

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Tim Hecker

Source image by basic_sounds. Original image and attribution.

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CC BY-SA/2.0

Riley Walz

Source image by Morgan Ellis / The San Francisco Standard. Original image and attribution.

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37signals

Source image by Olympic National Park / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of an expedition tent interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped on the tent and resized for display.

Public domain

andon labs

Source image by Solomon203 / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a vending machine interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 3.0

antithesis

Source image by Jitze Couperus from Los Altos Hills, California, USA / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of the Babbage Difference Engine interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped on the mechanism and resized for display.

CC BY 2.0

cognition

Source image by Joseph Racknitz / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

The 1789 Racknitz engraving of the Mechanical Turk interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Cropped to the cabinet mechanism and resized for display.

Public domain

convergent research

Source image by Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

A 1787 engraving of a solar microscope interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY 4.0

core automation

Source image by Auledas / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a collaborative robot arm interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 4.0

deepseek

Source image by U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

U.S. Navy photograph of the Bathyscaphe Trieste interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped on the vessel and resized for display.

Public domain

every

Source image by Gr.Diana / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source illustration of a Diana letterpress interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 4.0

gumroad

Source image by Julie Alexander / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a vintage gumball machine interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY 2.0

Hyperdub

Source image by Somethingelsedan / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of vinyl dubplates interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 3.0

ink & switch

Source image by Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (Qoan) / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a fountain pen nib interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 4.0

The Long Now Foundation

Source image by Pkirlin at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of the first Clock of the Long Now prototype interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Cropped to the clock mechanism and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 3.0

midjourney

Source image by Currier and Ives / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

A Currier and Ives lithograph of the clipper ship Dreadnought interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Cropped to the ship and resized for display.

Public domain

morph

Source image by Maria Sibylla Merian / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Maria Sibylla Merian's 1705 engraving of butterfly metamorphosis interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

Public domain

moving castles

Source image by Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of Neuschwanstein Castle interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC0

Oxide Computer Company

Source image by Derrick Coetzee / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a NERSC data center rack interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped on the cabling and resized for display.

CC0

Roam Research

Source image by Bearbeiter120 / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a wooden card index interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY 4.0

typesafe

Source image by VIGNERON / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a printer's case of movable type interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY 3.0

obsidian

Source image by Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Metropolitan Museum photograph of an obsidian blade interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC0

roam research

Source image by Leonhard Euler / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Figure 1 of Euler's 1736 paper on the Königsberg bridges interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

Public domain

tldraw

Source image by Zv0486 / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a whiteboard marker and eraser interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY-SA 4.0

zed

Source image by Jason Scott / Wikimedia Commons. Original image and attribution.

Source photograph of a DEC VT100 terminal interpreted as a graphite emblem study. Square-cropped and resized for display.

CC BY 2.0