Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

Antonio García Martínez

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

Reid Garrett Hoffman CBE is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.

Reid

Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, and has coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management.

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Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.

Paul

Patrick James Rothfuss is an American writer of epic fantasy. He is best known for his ongoing trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle, which won him several awards, including the 2007 Quill Award for his debut novel, The Name of the Wind. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, topped The New York Times Best Seller list.

Patrick

James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

James

Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multiplatinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Ryan

Chris Anderson is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Chris

Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

Seth

Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

Peter

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Dr. David Sinclair, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of the most well-known researchers in the field of rejuvenation. David is Australian-born and released his bestselling book, 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To', in 2019.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

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Neal

 Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is one of Time’s 100 best English-language novels.  It is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you will recognize it immediately.  Only once in a great while does an author come along who defies comparison—an author so original he redefines the way we look at the world.  Neal Stephenson is such an author, and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. 

Larry Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin.

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Ev Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable blog distribution websites.

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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin was the president of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc, until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019.

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Nat Eliason is the CEO and founder of Growth Machine, an SEO-focused growth agency, and co-founder of Cup & Leaf Tea. He is also the author of “Come Again?” and writes about psychology, sex, money, travel, entrepreneurship, drugs, and everything else you’d find interesting at nateliason.com.

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology.

Austen

Brandon Stanton is an American author, photographer, and blogger. He is the author of Humans of New York, a photoblog and book.

Brandon

Tobi Lütke is a German-born Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Shopify, a company based in Ottawa, Canada. He has been part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

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Larry King is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards.

Ryan co-founded Blockstack, one of the top developer platforms in the world for decentralized apps that raised $55M in funding and has a vibrant community of thousands of developers.

Bret Victor is an interface designer, computer scientist, and electrical engineer known for his talks on the future of technology. He currently works as a researcher at Dynamicland.

Bret

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

<p>The Diamond Age: or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 1995.  It won both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1996.  Set in a future—roughly around the year 2025—in which cybernetics and information technology have permeated all areas of life, The Diamond Age presents an imagined world at once realistic and fantastic: nanotechnology has rendered most conventional weapons obsolete; information can be instantly transmitted over vast distances via nanosensory flecks implanted in people’s foreheads; and characters have become so skillful at manipulating virtual reality that they can lose themselves within it for days at a time. </p>


The Diamond Age

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U. S.  Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702.  It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt.  The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702—commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code.  It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.  Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a data haven in Southeast Asia. 

Cryptonomicon

This is Neal Stephenson's command line -- a personal view of the art (and artifice) of computer-centric existence.  And considering that Stephenson is the hacker Hemingway, acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc. , etc. ) -- his voice is worth hearing.  The thoughtful, irreverent, and hilarious In the Beginning...  was the Command Line is a well-reasoned examination of computer-culture past and present; on operating-system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself. 

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire.  Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.  One beautiful autumn day—when Dodge is pronounced brain dead after undergoing a routine medical procedure—his stunned family and close friends must make difficult decisions.  Long ago, when Dodge drew up his will as a much younger man, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. 

David Elieser Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford.

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, a fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, who pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of mighty men and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.  It is the chronicle of Jack Shaftoe--street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary king of the Vagabonds--risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.  And it is Eliza's tale: rescued from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. 

Lewis Cantley is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism.

Lewis

Quicksilver

1714, England.  The brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his arch nemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, have waged a long-running secret war in London.  As Half-Cocked Jack hatches a daring plan aimed at total corruption of Britains newborn monetary system, hostilities are suddenly rising to a new and more volatile level. This is where Daniel Waterhouse comes in: Daniel, an ageing Puritan and Natural Philosopher, has been on a long and arduous effort to help heal the schism between rival minds.  Political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen, and the holy grail of alchemy, the key to eternal life, tantalizes and eludes Isaac Newton as Daniel combs city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers. Everything that was will be changed forever when Newton, Waterhouse, and Shaftoe draw closer to the target of Daniels quest... This P. S.  version includes an additional 16 pages of content, including author interviews, suggested reading, and more. 

The System of the World

 A catastrophic event renders Earth a ticking time bomb.  In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.  But human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remains…Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown…To an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. 

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Bill

Cleo Abram is a video journalist currently making Huge If True. She was previously a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

Cleo

Seveneves

<p>In 1689, the Mediterranean is a pirate's paradise… and Half-Cocked Jack, leader of the Vagabonds, is aiming to be its greatest pirate king.  To gain authority over other pirates and control a vast array of booty and ships, he launches himself onto an incredible adventure that takes him through France's King Louis XIV's court, and down into the deepest catacombs of history.  He must convince Eliza de la Zeur – dashing privateer and discoverer of America – to help stand against the forces arrayed against them, including Newton and Leibniz, who vie for supremacy in the fields of science and alchemy.  Meanwhile, a great war is brewing between England and France…</p>


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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

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The Confusion

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