§ A Context Jamming Section
FOUNDER FILES
Long-form editorial profiles of operators, researchers, and theorists shaping the AI epoch.
N°001
Tony Fadell
Co-inventor, iPod & iPhone · Founder, Nest · Designer in Residence, MIT MAD
A thirty-year seminar in atoms over bits. From General Magic to the iPod to Nest to MIT — Fadell’s career is a working argument that the rare hard thing is the timing, the team, and the willingness to ship the unfashionable version of the right product.
N°002
Chris Olah
Co-founder & Head of Interpretability · Anthropic
From the Google Brain Circuits thread to Distill to the sparse-autoencoder wave that cracked polysemanticity open — a decade teaching the field how to see inside neural networks.
N°003
Will MacAskill
Moral philosopher · Founder, Centre for Effective Altruism
How a slight, vegan, Glasgow-born moral philosopher became the ghost in the most consequential corporate-governance experiment of the twenty-first century.
N°004
Dr. Bret Ratner
Pediatrician · Immunologist
A working immunologist on what the AI safety field gets right and wrong about the human immune system as an existence proof for adversarial-but-benign learning.
N°005
Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder, OpenAI & Safe Superintelligence
The arc from AlexNet to the seq2seq paper to GPT to the SSI bet — and the question every other founder file in this series has to answer.
N°006
Dr. Jared Kaplan
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer · Anthropic
Theoretical physicist turned scaling-laws author. AdS/CFT holography sitting underneath the loss curves of every modern foundation model.
N°007
Boris Cherny
Engineering · Anthropic
On Claude Code, terminal-native AI engineering, and what the agentic-loop primitive actually feels like in production.
N°008
Peter Steinberger
Founder · PSPDFKit · Indie operator
A career in application-layer infrastructure, from the PSPDFKit acquisition to the post-exit life of an operator who keeps shipping anyway.
N°009
Juan Maldacena
Theoretical physicist · Institute for Advanced Study
The author of AdS/CFT — the paper that shows up, twenty-eight years later, as the structural backbone of one of the leading frontier labs.