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Lessons from Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is a George Mason University economist and co-author of The Elephant in the Brain, studying hidden status motives, social signaling, and cultural drift while proposing futarchy, a system that grounds government decisions in prediction markets.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Adam Gleave

Adam Gleave is FAR AI’s CEO and an AI alignment researcher who showed that unpredictable adversaries can defeat trained reinforcement-learning agents. The finding sharpens his work on machine vulnerabilities, governance, and career paths for a mature safety discipline.
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Lessons from Travis VanderZanden

Travis VanderZanden helped scale Lyft and Uber before founding Bird and popularizing dockless electric scooters as substitutes for short car trips. His experience frames questions about startup scaling, urban infrastructure, and a later move into cryptocurrency.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is an economist and Marginal Revolution co-author whose Great Stagnation theory links slower American growth to exhausted easy breakthroughs. His broader frameworks connect talent identification, economic analysis, and cultural understanding across unusually varied subjects.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Anton Troynikov

Anton Troynikov is CEO and co-founder of American Terawatt and co-founder of Chroma. His work examines AI memory, embeddings, retrieval, long-context reliability, and practical machine-learning infrastructure.
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Lessons from Alex Albert

Alex Albert is a researcher and developer relations leader known for early prompt-engineering work and Jailbreak Chat. At Anthropic, he helps developers build safely with Claude, joining prompting, security, tool integration, product development, and practical code shipping.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Will MacAskill

Will MacAskill is an Oxford philosopher who helped launch effective altruism, applying data to the question of doing the most good. His ethical framework tests charities, career choices, and the moral weight assigned to future generations.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Holden Karnofsky

Holden Karnofsky co-founded GiveWell and helped launch Open Philanthropy, applying rigorous evaluation to charities and high-risk projects. His Most Important Century thesis asks how advanced AI could make this era uniquely consequential for the long-term future.

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