• Tim Roughgarden — teaching and learning style. "Assume cryptography exists." What are our true assumptions?
• Ben Carson — an advocate for private-sector STEM to be more involved with government. A truly representative democracy.
• Marc Raibert — founder of the Leg Lab.
• Gordon Ramsay — ability to pivot. Greatness is a trait, not a planar intersect.
• Wesley Huff — embodied belief. Absolute truth.
• Cliff Knethcie — practical explanation.

Attributes

• Practicality, bold speaker — careful about being a careless speaker, which can misrepresent true thoughts and alienate people.
• Underrated attributes: focus, succinctness, vocabulary and articulation, first impressions, good assumptions.