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Lessons from Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, presents an optimistic vision of powerful AI shaped by serious attention to risk. His central tension is worth studying: whether confronting danger is the necessary route to extraordinary human benefit.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Logan Bartlett

Logan Bartlett is a Redpoint Ventures general partner and host of The Logan Bartlett Show. His candid venture perspective favors “unsexy” enterprise software and tactical founder insight, offering a contrarian lens on what deserves attention and investment.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Jeff Yass

Jeff Yass, co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, moved from professional gambling to quantitative trading. Applying poker and game theory to markets, his approach offers a distinctive study in probability and careful decision-making under uncertainty.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Bruce Cleveland

Bruce Cleveland is an investor and author of Traversing the Traction Gap. Drawing on his work at Wildcat Venture Partners, he presents the Traction Gap as a framework for examining the difficult pursuit of meaningful traction.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris was an organizational theorist and professor emeritus at Harvard Business School whose work reshaped organizational learning, defensive behavior, and leadership. His ideas illuminate why people and institutions can struggle to learn from experience.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Sean Goedecke

Sean Goedecke is a software engineer and writer known for pragmatic, often contrarian guidance on engineering careers, technology politics, and system design. His focus on large companies’ unwritten rules shows how organizational reality can diverge from formal process.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a pioneer of modern data visualization, often called the “Da Vinci of Data.” His commitment to clarity, precision, and ethical evidence presentation asks designers to make information more truthful, not merely more attractive.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Carl T. Bergstrom

Carl T. Bergstrom is a University of Washington biology professor and co-author of Calling Bullshit. Across evolutionary biology, information theory, metascience, and misinformation, he develops practical skepticism for judging claims in a world saturated with data.

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