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, financial history, industry and AI. Recommendations travel both ways: tell me what I'm missing.
Hidden ForcesDemetri Kofinas
In Good CompanyNicolai Tangen · NBIM
Eye on the MarketMichael Cembalest · J.P. Morgan
Thoughts on the MarketMorgan Stanley
The Library of Mistakesfinancial history
The Grant Williams Podcastmarkets
Thoughtful MoneyAdam Taggart
The Great SimplificationNate Hagens · energy & systems
IndustriinsiktSwedish industry
Selling the Cloudenterprise software
The a16z Podcasttechnology & venture
Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Future of Life InstituteAI safety
Astrumspace
Good Strategy / Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt
RangeDavid Epstein · why generalists triumph
The GoalEliyahu Goldratt · constraints & flow
Energy: A Human HistoryRichard Rhodes
The Technological RepublicAlexander Karp
The Fifth ShockRon Bienvenu
Ray Dalioprinciples & macro
Citrini Researchthematic markets
Simon Hunt Strategic Servicescopper & the real economy
Dr. Pippa Malmgrengeopolitics
fullhoffman.comJason Hoffman's blog
Markets and macro get the biggest share, but the edges matter more: energy systems, financial history, Swedish industry, AI safety. 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.