humans.md

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.

Interesting interviews

• 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)

Interesting bios

• Dennis M. Ritchie

Personal workflows

• Nikita Prokopov (2018)
• stapelberg uses this: my 2020 desk setup (HN)
• Dan Munro

Notes

• Build a list of people you want to work with someday. ~100% of them will be unavailable when you write their names down. You'll probably believe you'll never actually get a chance to work with >80% of them. Keep at it long enough and you'll be stunned by how wrong you were.

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.
• 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