Someone challenged me to write the first 15 authors who have influenced my thinking. This was hard to do. I could probably list about 100, but these are the ones that feel fresh and foundational at the same time in my mind right now. I cheated and listed 20 – but this list feels pretty good to me.

Mark Helprin

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Charles Dickens

Ursula K. Le Guin

Alexander McCall-Smith

Neal Stephenson

James Joyce

Albert Camus

Michel de Montaigne

Jacques Ellul

Marshall McLuhan

Plato

Aristotle

Jean Vanier

Erich Vogelin

Beatrix Potter

Frank Herbert

Edward Bernays

Margaret Atwood

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