Dr. Atul Gawande is a surgeon, public health researcher, and author. He is a staff member at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, and a senior advisor to Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center. He is also a…
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Carol Dweck is the Stanford psychologist behind one of the most influential ideas in modern education: mindset. Her research distinguishes a fixed mindset — the belief that ability is innate and finite — from a growth mindset, the belief that ability develops through effort, strategy, and feedback. Her book “Mindset” made the distinction a household…
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Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, historian, and political theorist whose short 1513 treatise “The Prince” earned him five centuries of infamy. He is the reason “Machiavellian” is an insult — but the caricature misses what he was actually doing: describing power as it functions rather than as moralists wished it would. His real contribution…
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Dr. John McDougall was an internist who spent his career making one argument with unusual consistency: humans thrive on starch. The McDougall Program is a very low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet built around rice, potatoes, corn, beans, and squash — the staples that have fed large populations for millennia. His case came partly from observation. Working…
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Alain de Botton is a Swiss-British philosopher and author. He is known for his books that explore the intersection of philosophy and everyday life, and for his ability to make complex ideas accessible to a general audience. De Botton has written several books on the topic of happiness, including “The Consolation of Philosophy,” “Status Anxiety,”…
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Dr. Michael Greger may be the most prolific nutrition communicator on the internet. Through NutritionFacts.org he and his team work through thousands of papers a year and turn them into short, free, citation-dense videos. His books “How Not to Die” and “How Not to Diet” are essentially annotated bibliographies with personality. His position is whole-food…
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Dr. Steven Gundry is a former cardiothoracic surgeon — a genuinely distinguished one, with a long career in paediatric heart surgery — who became famous for a dietary theory. In “The Plant Paradox” he argues that lectins, a class of plant proteins found in grains, legumes, nightshades, and some fruits, drive inflammation, gut permeability, and…
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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, a co-founder of string field theory, and one of the most effective science popularizers of the last forty years. Through books like “Physics of the Impossible,” “The Future of the Mind,” and “The God Equation,” he has made quantum field theory and…
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Craig Wright is an Australian computer scientist and the central figure in one of the strangest sagas in modern technology. Since 2016 he has publicly claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin — a claim the cryptographic community largely rejected from the outset. In March 2024 the UK High Court settled the…
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Bernard Roth is a Stanford engineering professor and a co-founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design — the d.school — where he spent decades teaching design thinking to people who arrived for the methodology and left with a different life. His book “The Achievement Habit” is the distillation. His core moves are deceptively simple.…
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