Barbara Oakley
EntitiesEngineering professor, author, and learning science communicator. Known for cocreating "Learning How to Learn," the world's most popular online course on Course
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Engineering professor, author, and learning science communicator. Known for cocreating "Learning How to Learn," the world's most popular online course on Course
American educational psychologist 1913–1999, best known for Bloom's Taxonomy and his landmark research on talent development. His work is foundational to both s
Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway 1978–2023. Warren Buffett's partner for over five decades. Lawyer turned investor turned polymath thinker. Died November 28,
Writer, creator, and entrepreneur. Known for the newsletter The Modern Mastery thedankoe.com/letters and courses on oneperson business, writing, and selfdevelop
Systems thinker and philosopher focused on civilizational risk — what he calls the "Metacrisis." Known for calm, nuanced, nonpolarizing analysis. Rarely posts;
Cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management 1995, one of the world's largest alternative investment firms specializing in credit and distressed debt. Author of The
Writer and speaker on habits, decisionmaking, and continuous improvement. Author of Atomic Habits 2018, one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the decade. R
Math educator, writer, and selfdescribed "upskilling maximalist." Founder of Math Academy, an adaptive math learning platform. Known for writing extensively abo
Former OpenAI researcher who worked on the Superalignment team under Ilya Sutskever. Published Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead in June 2024, a ~165page
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a trader, risk thinker, and author of the Incerto series. In sources/fooledbyrandomness, his role in this wiki is as the strongest sour
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, investor, and public thinker associated with AngelList, startups, investing, wealth creation, clear thinking, and happiness.
OpenAI Codex is treated in this wiki as an AI coding agent/product used for software development workflows. The current source emphasizes Codex as a longrunning