Reading the biographies of all these people is prolly a mindset hack for anyone who wants to do great things.
Well then, time to update my reading list 🫡
Top 100 Most Influential Persons in History
1. Muhammad
2. Isaac Newton
3. Jesus Christ
4. Gautama Buddha
5. Confucius
6. Paul the Apostle
7. Cai Lun
8. Johannes Gutenberg
9. Christopher Columbus
10. Albert Einstein
11. Louis Pasteur
12. Galileo Galilei
13. Aristotle
14. Euclid
15. Moses
16. Charles Darwin
17. Qin Shi Huang
18. Augustus Caesar
19. Nicolaus Copernicus
20. Antoine Lavoisier
21. Constantine the Great
22. James Watt
23. Michael Faraday
24. James Clerk Maxwell
25. Martin Luther
26. George Washington
27. Karl Marx
28. Wright Brothers
29. Genghis Khan
30. Adam Smith
31. William Shakespeare
32. John Dalton
33. Alexander the Great
34. Napoleon Bonaparte
35. Thomas Edison
36. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
37. William T.G. Morton
38. Guglielmo Marconi
39. Adolf Hitler
40. Plato
41. Oliver Cromwell
42. Alexander Graham Bell
43. Alexander Fleming
44. John Locke
45. Ludwig van Beethoven
46. Werner Heisenberg
47. Louis Daguerre
48. Simón Bolívar
49. René Descartes
50. Michelangelo
51. Pope Urban II
52. Umar ibn al-Khattab
53. Ashoka
54. Augustine of Hippo
55. William Harvey
56. Ernest Rutherford
57. John Calvin
58. Gregor Mendel
59. Max Planck
60. Joseph Lister
61. Nikolaus August Otto
62. Francisco Pizarro
63. Hernán Cortés
64. Thomas Jefferson
65. Isabella I of Castile
66. Joseph Stalin
67. Julius Caesar
68. William the Conqueror
69. Sigmund Freud
70. Edward Jenner
71. Wilhelm Röntgen
72. Johann Sebastian Bach
73. Laozi
74. Voltaire
75. Johannes Kepler
76. Enrico Fermi
77. Leonhard Euler
78. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
79. Niccolò Machiavelli
80. Thomas Malthus
81. John F. Kennedy
82. Gregory G. Pincus
83. Mani
84. Vladimir Lenin
85. Wen of Sui
86. Vasco da Gama
87. Cyrus the Great
88. Peter the Great
89. Mao Zedong
90. Francis Bacon
91. Henry Ford
92. Mencius
93. Zoroaster
94. Queen Elizabeth I
95. Mikhail Gorbachev
96. Menes
97. Charlemagne
98. Homer
99. Justinian I
100. Mahavira
Disclaimer: This list is based on "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History" by Michael H. Hart. It does not reflect my personal opinions.
Source: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons by Michael H. Hart.
Who do you think influenced the world the most? 💭
Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa