Sam Hinkie

I think Mark Andreessen is similar to that.

I think

Naval Ravikant is similar to that in that it's quite clear the number of sort of primitives underneath something is quite high, that they thought about many topics and many topics relatively deeply as they go.

I'm often looking at each of those.

That's a vein trying to figure out which of those I want to explore.

But on occasion, you'll come across people that are truly differentiated in how much of their own thinking they do, but then the kind of latticework they can bring with everyone else's on top of it.

One of the coolest things that you and I have discussed often about the modern world is that many times we can run this process of feeling your way to the bottom of someone's experience or thinking without actually having to talk to them.

You're able to follow breadcrumbs, digital breadcrumbs, we'll call them, whether they intended to leave it behind or it was sort of a natural course of their behavior.

Can you talk about what your interest is in digital breadcrumbs and how you use them?

If I can't find breadcrumbs sort of in the wider world, I'll often ask them for them.

I'll often ask people like, send me an awesome book or send me something cool to read or send me something really influential to you or send me something you've written.

So I end up reading lots of senior theses from college or old things they wrote or old posts or

One of the recent investments I made is in a company I'm really excited about, obviously, just happened a few months ago called ScoutApp.ai.

And I got deep into the founders there, deep.

I'm watching videos of their parents talk about their life journey.

I'm reading the Medium post of one of the founders over the last several years and reading all of his Medium highlights.

And it's not hard to say like, in this case, his name is Shrey.

If Shrey is thinking about this topic at this age and this topic at this age and is deeply curious about this and sort of gave the clap on Medium for this, that this was interesting and his GitHub repository looks like this.

That's all super interesting.

Likewise, one of the other founders, he had been producing these YouTube videos for the last seven or eight years, going through one thing after another, showing how he's doing his own thinking.