Rabbit Holes
Things I've fallen into and haven't climbed out of yet.
Watching / Listening
- OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet — Lex Fridman interviews Peter Steinberger. Dense, addictive, and worth every minute. Extreme agentic engineering.
- Jensen Huang: NVIDIA — The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution — Jensen Huang in conversation with Alex Fridman. A masterclass in leadership: management done right, humility, standards, clarity, vision.
- LVMH — The Acquired podcast, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. How a conglomerate becomes a culture. A masterclass case study on brand as infrastructure. You're welcome.
- Porsche — Also the Acquired podcast. What happens when engineering identity becomes a business model.
- Last Week in AI — Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Incredibly good signal-to-noise ratio. Research, legislation, chips, geopolitics, frontier models, robotics, AI safety — everything AI in the span of a week.
- Andy Weir — Project Hail Mary — If you work in tech and haven't read Andy Weir, here's your sign.
- David Heinemeier Hansson — Clankers with Claws — Creator of Rails, co-founder of 37signals. The most consistently right contrarian in tech. Sharp opinions, zero hedging.
- theMITmonk — Sandeep Swadia — Uncanny ability to strip complex concepts to their core and explain them with rare clarity. A touch of spirituality in the mix. One of the best teachers on the internet.
- 3Blue1Brown — Grant Sanderson — Mathematics made visually inevitable. Grant finds the geometric intuition hiding inside abstract concepts and makes you wonder how you ever thought about them any other way. Possibly the best math teacher alive.
Art × Technology
- Refik Anadol — Machine learning as immersive experience. Go see it in person — and then look up what fed the models.
- Reuben Margolin — Giant kinetic sculptures. Wave mathematics in wood and metal. Engineering at its most poetic. My absolute favorite.
- the Poet Engineer — Kat — Artist, engineer, researcher building new interfaces for how humans and machines meet. TouchDesigner, neural interfaces, and the sense that the future is being sculpted by hand. Love her.
- Sougwen Chung — Artist and researcher who collaborates with robotic systems trained on decades of her own drawings. Her DOUG robots have internalized her gesture and create alongside her. One of the most serious explorations of what co-creation with a machine actually means. BIG love.
- Iris van Herpen — Fashion meets physics. Simulation made wearable — fluid dynamics, interference patterns, magnetic fields frozen in fabric. Ethereal engineering.
Architecture
- Tadao Ando — Concrete, light, and silence as primary materials. The calm minimalism of buildings that feel inevitable in their landscape. Saw his work at Château La Coste and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris — among many other places.
- Kengo Kuma — Dissolution. Materials layered so the structure seems to disappear into its surroundings. The light filters. I am in genuine awe of minds that can hold physics, material science, and pure beauty simultaneously.
Greenfield
- Wind Fisher — Airborne wind energy at 300 meters altitude. A helium-filled flying wing using the Magnus effect: 1.6× more energy than traditional turbines, 90% less material. I know one of the founders. Greenfield: big brains, huge ideas, blank canvas, useful to humanity. ❤️