Coolest Folks I Discovered in 2024

I am quite sure I am missing some of you...

In an order with no pattern, these are some brilliant people I discovered this year. Highly recommend going down the rabbit holes. You can check out last year’s list here and 2022’s list here.

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• Anu Atluru: wonderful writer (creativity, startups, etc), founder, great tweets

• Spencer Chang: brilliant inventor, very creative and generative, magic ceramic and more.

• Sari Azout: founder of Sublime, curator and generous resident of the cozy web.

• Alex Dobrenko: Sublime, collector of interesting people, honest and introspective writing.

• Jason Kottke: one of the coolest personal websites out there, consistently sharing the most interesting parts of the web.

• Matt Webb: brilliant inventor of things like magic clocks, on a 300+ day writing streak or something wild like that, his writing is very deeply researched but in a way that feels entirely casual.

• Kay van den Aker: inventor, interface design, AR, and more.

• Andrés Cuervo: inventor at Folk Computer, very deep knowledge of computer history and where things could go.

• Matt Muir: Runs web curious, a true internet collector and curator.

• é. urcades: trying to do very cool things at the Flower Computer Company to make everyday objects remember things and change based on their environment.

• Kev: internet collector and curator, fascinating experiments with “magic labels” sewn into clothing.

• Sam Peitz: designer building very human feeling, creative, tools.

• Jack Connor: OSV fellow archiving endandgered languages using traditional methods + AI.

• Cristóbal Sciutto Rodríguez: writer, collector, inventor (Folk Computer).

• Marisa / Design Team of One: designer and curator of cool things

• Juxtopposed: Awesome UI/UX designer making YouTube videos on UI/UX concepts, redesigns interfaces of famous software and documents them in a super fun way

• Ryan Mather + Kelin Carolyn Zhang: inventors, made Poetry Camera… the magic polaroid which composes poems based on what you photograph.

• Anjan Katta: inventor and founder, Daylight Computer Co, cool way of not going with the typical Silicon Valley thinking.

• Laurel Schwulst + Elliot Cost: separately, extremely generative creative people. Together, HTML energy. Elliot also co-created the Internet Phone Book.

• Kristoffer Tjalve: co-creator of the Internet Phone Book, extremely creative designer and artist.

  I reserve the right to add anyone I remember later who I truly discovered in 2024!