Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?

2•SMAAART•1h ago

Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking?

Socrates to Bill Gates?

I'll go first, in no particular order:

- The Ancient Stoics

- D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other

- C G Jung

- Alfred Adler

- Arthur Schopenhauer

- Friedrich Nietzsche

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Franz Kafka

- Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston"

- George Pólya

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rmason•1h ago

I got interested in civic coding because of the essays by Tim O'Reilly. When I was running the Code Michigan hackathon for a couple of years with the State Of Michigan I tried getting him as a speaker with no luck.

nonasking_•55m ago

I’d like to name specific people, but I’ve been influenced much more by my family and the people around me.

rahuljha0403•38m ago

For me: Primary level, Ancient eastern wisdom(Hinduism, Buddhism, Yogic texts) to attain calmness during storm/failures. Then on secondary level, modern tech people like steve jobs, engineers who build open source etc.

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