- Michael Easter
- Daniel Kahneman
- Introduced me to actual behavioural psychology.
- Daniel Dennett
- Introduced me to memetics.
- Michael Levin
- I mean I still don’t fully understand what he is doing, but it’s revolutionary I know that.
- Jordan B Peterson
- Introduced me to deeper notions of responsibility.
- John Vervaeke
- Introduced me to relevancy realisation and opponent processing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Introduced me to Existentialism.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Herd and slave morality.
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Introduced me to the Ethics of Ambiguity as well as the Facticity Transcendence Dichotomy.
- Albert Camus
- A true rebel.
- Rene Girard
- Introduced me to the scape goat mechanism and mimetic desire.
- Jean Baudrillard
- Introduced me to simulacra, hyperreality, and postmodern theory.
- Byung-Chul Han
- Introduced me to auto-exploitation, achievement society, burnout society.
- Slavoj Zizek
- Haven’t read any of his stuff because I love watching him speak.
- Showed me Bartleby, the Scrivener.