Last updated: 09-23-2025

Musicians

• Bowie
• Leonard Cohen
• Bill Callahan
• Steve Albini
• Wire
• Elliott Smith
• Mark Kozelek
• Matt and Bubba Kadane
• Yo La Tengo
• The RZA
• Jim O’Rourke
• The New Year
• Neil Young
• Jay-Z
• Silkworm
• Jason Molina
• Sonic Youth
• Low

Visual Artists

• Todd Hido
• Luigi Ghirri
• Francisco Goya
• Rodin
• van Gogh

Comedians

• Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim
• Mitch Hedberg
• Scharpling and Wurster
• Bob Odenkirk
• Steve Coogan
• Nathan Fielder
• Danny McBride
• Conan
• Martin Short
• Galifianakis

Film Makers

• Herzog
• Jarmusch
• Joel and Ethan Coen
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• David Lynch
• Tarantino
• Mike Leigh
• Wes Anderson
• Terrence Malick
• Yorgos Lanthimos
• Kubrick

Writers

• Neal Stephenson
• William Faulkner
• Orwell
• Pynchon
• Salinger
• Vonnegut
• Garcia Marquez
• William Gibson
• Cormac McCarthy
• George Saunders
• Nabokov

Companies/Products/Technology

• Linux
• Bitcoin
• Leica
• Rolex
• Patek Philippe
• Seiko
• Grado
• Cervelo
• The Criterion Collection
• Git
• THE INTERNET
• bittorrent
• gps

Thinkers/Inventors/Scientists

• Tesla
• Musk
• Satoshi
• Jobs
• Max Cooper
• Linus Torvalds
• Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger
• Newton and Leibniz
• Diffie / Hellman
• Glenn Lilly - sha hash function
• Srinivasa Ramanujan

Concepts

• Strong determinism
• Public Key Cryptography
• Homuncular functionalism
• Calculus
• Natural Selection
• One-way hash functions (see Glenn Lilly link above)