These are people whose work I read, borrow from, or keep returning to. This is a starting list, not a ranking.
Tobi Lütke
tobi.lutke.com ↗
A builder and operator whose human-plus-machine framing keeps showing up in how I think about AI.
Greg Isenberg gregisenberg.com ↗His marketing engineer framing helped turn vague AI potential into a practical operating model.
Simon Willison simonwillison.net ↗One of the clearest public notebooks on what modern language models can and cannot do.
Derek Sivers sive.rs ↗Writes with uncommon clarity about decisions, focus, and building a life on purpose.
Nick Gray nickgray.net ↗Makes the independent web feel social again. He created SlashFriends and PersonalWebsites.org.
This is a /friends page, inspired by slashfriends.org and Nick Gray.
Find more independent sites at PersonalWebsites.org.