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 — MIT grad who started as a struggling musician and experienced homelessness before redirecting his life toward tech and entrepreneurship. Covers AI, mental models, and what building actually takes. The personal arc makes it worth watching.
Artists
- 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.
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. ❤️