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American writer, thinker, and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, influential in Silicon Valley culture.

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The Ezra Klein Show
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

And along the way, Brand has been writing these very beautiful, unusual books, not just the whole Earth catalog, but How Buildings Learn in 1994, which I love, and if you've not read, you really should.

The Ezra Klein Show
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand, not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.

The Ezra Klein Show
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

Brand has one of these amazing lives where he seemed to be present, at least for a part of the culture, at almost everything that mattered.

The Ezra Klein Show
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

I think if you were to look for the philosopher, the thinker who is most influential in the culture that became the internet, who sort of laid down the way Silicon Valley thought, at least in its more idealistic era, the person you come up with is Stewart Brand.