Influences
People
- Chamath Palihapitiya: Amassing capital to me is about finding a smart, useful solution to a very hard practical problem.
- Charlie Munger: Elementary worldly wisdom.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky: For although you are ambitious, you have no ambition.
- Elon Musk: Reason up from first principles, not by analogy.
- Ilya Sutskever: Success is guaranteed.
- John von Neumann: Clarify the concepts before applying exact methods.
- Kent Beck: Make the change easy, then make the easy change.
- Naval Ravikant: The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
- Nassim Taleb: The antilibrary; convexity over understanding.
- Peter Thiel: Competition is for losers.
- Richard Feynman: Invent notations; they are powerful. (plus Cargo Cult Science)
- Sam Altman: How To Be Successful.
Here's the list of books and articles that have influenced my thinking + kept me entertained.
- Dump of the Day -- Blog on things I would have liked to have known by yours truly. (Korean)
Mental Models
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Understanding Is A Poor Substitute For Convexity
- A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
- Turning \$2 Million Into \$2 Trillion