Curiosity has a reading list.
Lateral thinking is downstream of what you feed it. What I actually listen to, read and follow — markets and macro, energy and geopolitics, space and AI, financial history and the Nordic industrial world. Recommendations travel both ways: tell me what I'm missing.
Hidden ForcesDemetri Kofinas
Thoughtful MoneyAdam Taggart
The Grant Williams Podcast+ The Super Terrific Happy Hour
In Good CompanyNicolai Tangen · NBIM
Eye on the MarketMichael Cembalest · J.P. Morgan
Thoughts on the MarketMorgan Stanley
The Library of Mistakesfinancial history
The Great SimplificationNate Hagens · energy & systems
Peter Zeihangeopolitics
All-Intech & markets
The a16z Podcast
Masters of ScaleReid Hoffman
The Prof G ShowScott Galloway
Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Future of Life InstituteAI safety
Selling the Cloudenterprise software
IndustriinsiktSwedish industry
Astrumspace
The Astrophysics Podcast
Good Strategy / Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt
Energy: A Human HistoryRichard Rhodes
The Technological RepublicAlexander Karp
The Fourth TurningWilliam Strauss & Neil Howe
Leaders Eat LastSimon Sinek
The Fifth ShockRon Bienvenu
Ray Dalioprinciples & macro
Citrini Researchthematic markets
Simon Hunt Strategic Servicescopper & the real economy
Dr. Pippa Malmgrengeopolitics
No Mercy / No MaliceScott Galloway
Linas Beliūnasfintech
fullhoffman.comJason Hoffman's blog
MetatrendsPeter Diamandis
Markets and macro get the biggest share, but the edges matter more: energy systems, financial history, space, AI safety, Swedish industry. The list is where the orthogonal thinking comes from — most of what I bring to one field was learned in another. It shifts; the curiosity doesn't.