influences

A list of people who’ve left a considerable mark on who I am.

• Naval Ravikant sparked the intellectual curiosity in me. My walk down computer science alley has his footprints all the way through.
• David Deutsch opened my mind to what knowledge is and what makes us, humans, different. His book The Beginning of Infinity is like a software upgrade for the mind. Chapters titled The Reach of Explanations and Why are flowers beautiful? have changed my thinking in profound ways.
• Jordan Peterson made realise why it is important to learn how to read and write.
• Eckhart Tolle helped me learn how to deal with the mind. There are passages in his book The Power of Now that put me in meditative state just by reading them.
• Rafael Nadal helped me develop a never give up attitude.