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Fun question: someone comes to you, asking for papers/books they should read. You are only allowed to say, "Go read everything ____ has ever written".
Who do you choose? (ht to @JaminSpeer, who I tried to quote tweet, but it failed for some reason)
I had a terrible time choosing. Feynman. Bret Victor. Alexei Kitaev. David Deutsch. Vernor Vinge. Except I don't think I've (quite) read everything by any of those people.
A request: I suspect a lot of people are recommending people whose work they mostly haven't read. Please only suggest, say, Richard Hamming or David Deutsch, if you've read in detail much of their work, including many of their technical papers.
(A good first step is spelling the person's name correctly.)
Isn't it exciting that there's still more left??
It's astounding, isn't it? We're so lucky! BTW, Herb Simon, Jane Jacobs, Elinor Ostrom, and Stewart Brand should all be honorable mentions on my list :-)
If this was a professional setting (battery research), the answer is unambiguously Jeff Dahn
Freeman Dyson
Bret Victor’s stuff completely changed my perspective on technology, interfaces and what I consider to be meaningful work. Absolutely worth the recommendation.
Thank you for starting off with Feynman. I’d throw in Carl Sagan because space is awesome.
Paul Graham. @paulg
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