Admirable People

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Admirable People

I've become aware of many people that have, in some way or another, been a great source of knowledge, perspective, critical thinking, expert opinions, and support. In an effort to share with others what I have gained from having been aware of these people, I will document those details here. As always, feel free to contact me if you think you have any suggestions on who I should be following. Generally, the people I admire and follow are intellectuals, critical thinkers, have knowledge and experience that IMHO should be shared.

These are the types of people I would trust to make important decisions in the best interest of the human race and planet Earth.

Many, many more to come...

Spiritual Gurus

Technologists

  • Elon Musk
    Elon Musk is an engineer, industrial designer, and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.
  • Bruce Schneier
    Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
  • Edward Snowden
    Edward Snowden, a technologist and journalist, is a former Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor, is an American whistleblower who made public the various illegal mass surveillance operations of the US government in 2013.
  • Bill Binney
    William Edward Binney is a former intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency and whistleblower.
  • Linus Torvalds
    Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which is the kernel for Linux operating systems and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS.
  • Richard Stallman
    RMS is THE go-to free software advocate. He is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.

Critical Thinkers

  • Robert Reich
  • Richard D. Wolff
    Richard David Wolff is an American economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York.
  • George Carlin
    George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, philosopher, actor, and author. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics of all time, he was once dubbed "the dean of counterculture comedians."
  • Bill Hicks - satirist, social critic, stand-up comedian
    Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician. His material—encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy—was controversial and often steeped in dark comedy.
  • Michael Moore
    Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, author and activist. His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism.
  • Lawrence Lessig
    Lester Lawrence Lessig III is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
  • Russell Brand
    Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.
  • Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director
  • Noam Chomsky
    Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, historian, social critic, and political commentator. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
  • Julian Assange
    Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.
  • Chris Hedges
    Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.
  • Jordan B. Peterson
    Canadian author, clinical psychologist, and scholar who is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is also an author, produces YouTube videos and podcasts, and has outspoken views on gender identity and masculinity.
  • Joe Rogan
    Joe is an American comedian and podcast host. He has also worked as a mixed martial arts color commentator, television host, and occasional actor. Rogan began a career in comedy in August 1988 in the Boston area.
  • Howard Bloom
    American author, radio show host, and intellectual
  • Carl Sagan
    Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known as a science popularizer and communicator.
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.

Groups / NGOs / Nonprofits

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.
  • Free Software Foundation
    The FSF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software.
    • @fsf on Twitter
    • The Planetary Society
      The Planetary Society is an American internationally active, non-governmental, nonprofit foundation. It is involved in research, public outreach, and political advocacy for engineering projects related to astronomy, planetary science, and space exploration.


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