企业家

Birb
A social lab running experiments as marketing
Soup is a social laboratory. Birb works with teams to design social experiments, events and curated gatherings as marketing, then collects behavioral data from what actually happens in the room and turns it into something actionable. The lab builds its own measurement instruments to analyze activations, feeds what it learns into the next campaign, and publishes appearances, events and reports on the site.
@Bonecondortrysoup.xyzt@trysoup.xyz
CJ The X
Public philosopher, cyberpunk luddite, rapper
CJ The X is a public philosopher based in Toronto. Since their first video essay went up on YouTube in 2021, the channel has grown to over 350,000 subscribers, 15 million views, a serious crowdfunding base on Patreon and sold-out lecture audiences around the world. The site describes a breathless interdisciplinary approach blending irreverent humour, sharp intellectualism and earnest spirituality, which is about right. Outside the philosophy CJ is a rapper, producer and playwright, most comfortable when they have several projects going in several mediums at once.
@cjthexcjthex.com
Michael Ashcroft
Alexander Technique, for unifying mind and body
Michael Ashcroft teaches the Alexander Technique: unifying mind and body, letting go of unconstructive patterns of tension. The self-paced online course has taken on more than 1,800 students since 2021, and a separate coaching practice uses the Aletheia method to clear whatever is impeding growth. Writing appears on Substack and at Every, expandingawareness.org is the dedicated site, and the YouTube videos are ad-libbed.
@m_ashcroftmichaelashcroft.com
Chloe Good
Healing attachment, embodying safety
Healing Attachment, Embodying Safety is the line Chloe Good's practice runs under. The work draws on more than twenty modalities, among them Internal Family Systems, the Adult Attachment Repair Model, somatic therapy, energy work, meditation, life purpose work, archetypal and comedy improv, and strengths-based leadership. Clients are high performers working to find their purpose, get past internal barriers and build the life they actually want to live. Before this came eight years as a leadership professor at Stanford and Sonoma State, and consulting for leaders at eBay, Accenture, Square, Facebook and Bay Area startups.
@cgoodcchloegood.com
Myk
A digital garden of functions, ontology, and LLMs
Mykola Bilokonsky keeps a digital garden, "a place to gather thoughts and watch them grow." Not a blog and not a feed: it is organized by what pleases the gardener, not by date. The plots are Talks, LLM Explorations, Philosophical Musing, Neurodiversity and Creative Projects, and the featured pieces include Metastructuralism, RhizomeDB ("towards an assembly language for data"), and a talk called Have You Ever, Like, Really Thought About Functions? A standing invitation sits at the top of every page: Let's Talk.
@mykolamyk.pub
Ava
Writer, matchmaker, and coach on relationships
Penn, then tech, then full-time writing at 23. Ava publishes regularly on Substack at avabear.xyz about human behavior, romantic and platonic connection, and personal growth, and the work splits three ways: the writing, matchmaking, and coaching. What runs under all of it is emotional integration over intellectualization. "If you're smart and you're not happy, there's a good chance you're disassociated from your feelings" in ways that quietly steer major life decisions.
@noampomskyava.space
Daemonic
Financial shadow work and money mapping
Money mapping is financial shadow work. Daemonic traces the web of emotions and relationships sitting underneath money fears and aspirations, then integrates them as a way to grow, working from Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing. The premise is that money behavior which looks irrational on the surface makes complete sense once you see the larger context it belongs to. Sessions can be filmed so prospective clients can watch what one actually looks like, and a YouTube channel digs into the research and phenomenology of finance.
@daemonhuggercal.com/daemonic
Elena Lake
Regenerative touch for the nervous system
An MIT degree in math, computer science and physics, then machine learning engineering at Meta, then bodywork. Elena Lake formalized the approach as regenerative touch once sessions kept producing unusual results, combining Esalen massage, craniosacral work, fascia technique and organ bodywork. The aim is deep relaxation that also reaches structural and nervous system health. Physical and emotional stress get released together. Classes, writings and a list of recommended practitioners sit alongside the one-on-one sessions.
@relic_radiationelenalakebodywork.com
Tim Blais
A Capella Science, sung many voices deep
Tim Blais makes A Capella Science, where real scientific material gets arranged for stacked vocals and somehow holds up as both. The Patreon carries over 1,300 members and funds roughly $6,000 per video, with exclusive posts and a community around the project. As genres go it is a category of one.
@acapellasciencepatreon.com/acapellascience
Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Mapping consciousness with physics and phenomenology
Andrés Gómez Emilsson is president of the Qualia Research Institute, a nonprofit think tank studying consciousness through mathematical and empirical methods. The research combines topology, non-linear optics and systematic phenomenology to model how psychedelics alter conscious experience at the computational level. QRI runs HEART retreats for high-energy awareness research and builds tools like the Oscilleditor for visualizing states of consciousness. Also a co-founder of ClusterFree, which pushes psychedelic research and policy reform for cluster headaches, described there as the most painful condition known to mankind.
@algekalipsoqualiacomputing.com
Sadalsvvd
A new kind of astrology software
Cygnus is astrology software organized around three commitments: beauty, speed, privacy by default. Sadalsvvd has it covering birth charts, solar and lunar returns, secondary progressions, transits and zodiacal releasing, and the flagship is Electional Search, which scans years of sky for the moments matching exact criteria using complex logical operators. It is in early access with more under active development. The Bluesky bio opens with the operating instruction: EXPECT ECLECTICISM.
@sadalsvvd.spacecygnus.so
Marei Christensen
Therapy, coaching, and conflict mediation
Mareike Christensen is a therapist and coach in Sweden, specializing in presence-based work. Individual and couples therapy, coaching, conflict mediation and group courses are all on offer, grounded in cognitive-behavioral tools alongside existential, somatic and transpersonal dimensions. Depression, stress management, intimacy, trauma recovery and personal development are the ground covered, in Stockholm, online, and occasionally Copenhagen.
@Mareikehereintopresence.sekmareikec@gmail.com
Ms. G
Building bespoke software for specific people
The GitHub bio is the whole thesis. "I live in Dubai. I don't have a software background. I just really like building things for people I care about." The repos bear it out: four job boards, each tailored to one friend in a different field, scraping Dubai listings and generating customized resumes and cover letters. The most ambitious is Threadthulhu, which maps fifteen-plus years of a Twitter user's tweets with vector embeddings and spatial clustering to make the shape of that person’s thinking visible. Others include felt and unthought. She built all of it with Claude Code, in a collaboration she describes as director plus engineer.
@pragueyerrrgithub.com/pragueyerrr
Alexandra
Writer, qigong teacher, follower of the inner path
Alexandra Heller writes Inner Pathing, a Substack on following the inner path, and teaches qigong. The pieces picked out as favourites give the range: "to know the landscape of someone's psyche," "Why don't we talk more about how strange time is?", "Things You're Allowed to Do, That I Would Recommend," and "Letter to My Younger Self." Older blog posts are still up at alexandraheller.com, and the invitation to reach out is standing.
@innerpathinginnerpathing.comalex@alexandraheller.com
Manon
Personal styling and image direction
CUIR CANNAGE translates personal essence into visual aesthetics. Manon runs four offerings under it: Identity Styling, which is color analysis and wardrobe definition; Wardrobe Curation, organizing what you already own by lifestyle need; Personal Shopping, curated acquisitions matching an established aesthetic; and Image Direction Retainers for ongoing visual strategy. The method is deliberately both analytical and intuitive. The promise on the front page: step into your confidence.
@CuirCannagecuircannage.com
Danny Miranda
Meditation, hypnotherapy, coming home to yourself
Danny Miranda's stated aim is helping people come home to themselves. Talking Meditations, the weekly podcast co-hosted with Tej Dosa, covers the meditative and spiritual end of it. One-on-one there is hypnotherapy and coaching, pointed at increasing love, joy and peace and at clarifying where a life is going, and the group work runs to Best Month Ever, a 30-day mental reprogramming program, plus weekend workshops in Austin.
@heydannymirandadannymiranda.comdanny@dannymiranda.com
Mary Zoso
Wholesome, holistic sex coaching
Mary Zoso is a non-judgmental sex coach. One-on-one sessions and small group classes look at people's relationships with arousal, shame and fear, with a particular focus on destigmatizing male sexuality. Everything runs on a sliding scale, no one is turned away for lack of funds, and there is a podcast, Sex & Sensibility, a book, and a run of essays.
@MaryZosomaryzoso.up.railway.appmaryzhuzhuzoso@gmail.com
Tasshin
Spreading love, following curiosity, empowering others
Tasshin Fogleman founded The Service Guild to demonstrate the intimacy of fun and service. Three things run through everything: spreading love, following curiosity, empowering others. The output is YouTube videos, a newsletter, the Reach Truth podcast, and open availability for calls with anyone who wants one. Brooklyn-based, with a Patreon for supporters and the Guild itself at serviceguild.fun.
@tasshinfoglemantasshin.comtasshinfogleman@gmail.com
Andrew Rose
Six weeks of in-person AI training in NYC
Fractal Accelerator is six weeks, in person, in NYC, capped at 25 people a cohort. Andrew Rose teaches professionals with no coding background to master AI tools and build real things: websites, data visualizations, research reports, video games, even hardware. Saturdays are for learning and co-working; the rest of the week is for applying it to the job you already have. The X bio adds the other half: "Happy husband and father. Trying to make the world a teeny bit better each day with my family and friends. Teaching people to love the new era of computing."
@__drewfacefractalaccelerator.com
James Stuber
Boring fundamentals and infinite games
"A productivity nerd recovering from an excessive dose of rationalism" is the self-description: someone who built the systems for efficiency and then had to learn to weigh optimization against actually living. James Stuber teaches through a blog, the Digital Productivity Coach platform and YouTube, covering workflow design, boring fundamentals, second-order thinking and personal development. The résumé is eclectic. Advanced language proficiency tests passed, a company founded, weightlifting records broken, digital productivity tools built. The argument underneath is to master the unsexy core skills and spend the freed-up time on learning, exploration and enjoyment.
@uberstuberjamesstuber.comjames@jamesstuber.com
Paul Millerd
Author of The Pathless Path
The Pathless Path (2022) has reached more than 65,000 readers worldwide; Good Work followed in 2024. Paul Millerd writes about getting past the default career trajectory toward something more intentional. The podcast runs to nearly 200 conversations about unconventional paths, and there is a newsletter on work and creativity plus a community at community.pathlesspath.com.
@p_millerdpathlesspath.com
Xiq
An open tweet database anyone can build on
The Community Archive is an open database and API holding millions of tweets from the volunteered archives of hundreds of accounts. Xiq started it in 2024 as a crowdsourced way to bootstrap data for researching memetics, on the premise that the history of internet subcultures is worth preserving before it disappears. It is open source, so any community can stand up its own. A browser extension streams tweets into it. Things built on top include an archive toolkit for reading threads chronologically, personal semantic search, and a bot that writes tweets out of the archive's most-liked material.
@exgenesiscommunity-archive.org
Space Punk
Bardo tour guide, witch, psychofauna exobiologist
"A tour guide, a witch, and a psychofauna exobiologist" is the self-description. Space Punk guides people who have encountered the anomalous, or who want adventure past the edges of ordinary reality, drawing on tantric Buddhism, witchcraft, consciousness exploration and psychedelic art. On offer: live 1:1 bardo tours, cryptic omens and portents, enchanted items and talismans, spells and ritual work, and Mahayana Sutras. The register throughout is esoteric and unmistakably playful.
@_space_punk_spacepunk.spacemaheshvaramandala@gmail.com
Maria Falbo
Cultural architect, erotic mystic
Maria Falbo works under the title Cultural Architect, stewarding what the self-description calls "a regenerative ecosystem for creative pioneers built upon the foundations of cosmo erotic humanism." Copson Universe is the founding project. The writing lives on Substack under the name Imagine a beautiful life, and the material is philosophical and cultural, circling personal transformation and systemic renewal at once.
@maria__fsubstack.com/@mariafalbo
Maja
Writing toward aliveness
velvet noise has tens of thousands of subscribers. The name is a sound design term for the soft, natural reverb used to make digital signals feel more real, and that is the thesis: how to make an increasingly technological world feel human, how to find meaning inside the static. Maja writes about attention, desire, friendship, love, beauty, technology, creative identity, and the environments that shape who we become, with a standing interest in the spaces between art and technology, poetry and research, intuition and institution-building. The long-term ambition is for it to become cultural infrastructure, running to essays, conversations, gatherings and retreats.
@majamediacovelvetnoise.substack.commajawilbrink@gmail.com
Wendell Britt
Redesign your allyship around joy, not obligation
Mastering the Game of Allyship treats allyship as a sustainable practice, not a reliable route to burnout. Wendell Britt built it in three connected pieces: an oracle deck of practical moves for high-pressure moments, a field guide laying out six roles and how to redesign the game itself, and one-on-one coaching to shift from scarcity-driven patterns to satisfaction-based ones. The background is directing DEI and inclusivity at Blue Sky Studios, building allyship curriculum and running alumni engagement, plus teaching writing, hosting a podcast, and training in IFS, shadow work and Jungian psychology. The claim underneath it all: effective allyship requires personal flourishing, not self-sacrifice.
@wendell_brittmasteringallyship.comwendell@masteringallyship.com
Priya Rose
Built a walkable campus out of friends
It began as an announcement called The Neighborhood NYC with one goal: get 1,000 friendly, ambitious nerds within a five-minute walk of each other. Priya Rose co-founded what became Fractal, now a Brooklyn coliving campus of 36 residents anchoring a community of around 400, plus an apartment building of 60+ and eight more co-living houses spun off across New York City. Several living-room third spaces host co-working, events and classes. Inside all of it sits Fractal University, a bootstrapped community college. It teaches dozens of classes a semester.
@Prigoosefractalnyc.com
Tricia Pickren
Reiki sessions and spiritual mentorship
Tricia Pickren offers reiki and mentorship for people who want to heal and decompress. Sessions come with personalized guidance, help making sense of whatever surfaced and orientation for the wider journey it belongs to. Testimonials describe a safe, trusting space and an approach that listens and guides gently; free resources go out through Substack, YouTube and Instagram.
@triciapickrentriciapickren.comhello@triciapickren.com
Mary Bajorek
Career coaching toward work worth loving
Mary Bajorek coaches professionals through career transitions. The typical client is self-aware but stuck: in a role that doesn't fit, hesitating over a change that clearly needs making, or losing focus inside work that ought to feel meaningful. One-on-one coaching, workshop facilitation and speaking are on offer, plus a free Work Worth Loving Starter Kit and a blog. The first hour is free.
@mary_bajoreklifeworthlovingcoaching.com
Malcolm Ocean
Be in purposeful flow ten minutes from now
Intend connects what you do today to what you are actually trying to do with your life. Malcolm Ocean built it around clarifying what matters and staying aligned with it, so daily intention-setting sits alongside progress tracking across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual horizons, with big goals broken into actions that fit in a day. Four principles run underneath: choosing over organizing, aliveness over exhaustiveness, goals over tasks, proactive over reactive.
@Malcolm_Oceanintend.do
Chris Lakin
Clearing internal bottlenecks for AI researchers
Chris Lakin works with researchers at frontier AI labs on whatever is internally in the way of their impact: burnout, coordination trouble, emotional regulation. Engagements run from a single session to multi-week programs, and payment comes after the goal is hit. Outcomes get tracked years later, because the point is durable behavioral change. The site is explicit that none of this is medical treatment, and points anyone in a severe sleep, financial or depressive crisis toward professional support.
@chrislakinchrislakin.comchris@chrislakin.com
Jack Crawford
In-depth game analysis and design criticism
Jack Crawford makes criticism about how games actually work, mostly on YouTube, live every Saturday at 1pm ET. The essays go at design questions most criticism skips: why a mystery is often better as a novel than as a game, what separates bounded puzzle logic from the unbounded, inductive kind that exploration and detective games run on. A 2025 games-of-the-year list came with every title that had turned up on anyone else's list deliberately pruned out. One piece on Post Void reverse-engineered the slide physics down to the optimal backslide angle, then pushed the world record. “Good gameplay doesn’t happen on the screen; it happens in your head.”
@jackcrawford__youtube.com/@jack_crawford
Daniel Golliher
A civics academy for how NYC actually works
Maximum New York is a civics school that trains people to understand how New York City's government actually operates. Daniel Golliher founded it, and the classes cover governmental mechanics, case studies of municipal transformation, and the hierarchy running between local, state and federal authority. Where an activist organization would build a large volunteer base, MNY deliberately cultivates a smaller group of highly knowledgeable people who network together on significant civic projects. Students come from technology, government, legislative staff, and ordinary citizenship.
@danielgollihermaximumnewyork.com
Vivid Void
Meditation, education, and retreat training
Nameless Mountain runs meditation instruction, spiritual training and retreats, aimed at helping people become their strongest, most connected selves. The programming pairs Eastern contemplative traditions with modern educational approaches, and both regular participation and dedicated retreat experiences are available. The X bio, for its part: "I believe in everything. Nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing. Everything is sacred."
@vividvoidnamelessmountain.org
Georgie Dorothea
Specialist in uncovering the unconscious mind
Georgie Dorothea works on the unconscious mind, combining psychology with extrasensory perception to find the mental structures that quietly limit a life. One-on-one coaching takes on the blocks that show up in work and relationships, intuition development circles are restarting soon, and energy body readings are meant to reconnect people with what they are actually capable of. The Substack is called Downloads, and it goes under the line "uncovering reality through the felt-senses."
@georgiedorotheageorgiedorothea.comgeorgie@georgiedorothea.com
Laura Coe
Akashic Records as a route to the authentic self
Laura Coe works where philosophy meets lived experience, helping people connect with who they actually are. The primary tool is the Akashic Records, described as the energetic space that holds your soul's history, used as a way into wisdom and spiritual awareness. Free introductory courses lead into paid certifications and live classes through The Little Soul School, alongside individual readings, published books, and a podcast called The Art of Authenticity.
@laurascoelauracoe.com
Jane
Energy work and death doula care for transitions
Jane Miller calls the work being a naturalist for inner body landscapes. In practice that is touch-based energy work joined to death care: sessions for reaching your own authentic self and inner aliveness, and doula and psychopomp support that runs from everyday transitions all the way to end of life. Intuitive energy reading, imaginal journeying and trauma-informed practice all feed it. There are community events too, and a podcast about death, creativity and transformation.
@joespurpleshirtjanemiller.xyz
Sighswoon
Developing a language with the invisible
Gabi Abrão works as sighswoon. The memes, paintings, poems and videos all point at one thing: the invisible, the parts of existence that are intangible and unseen. The Patreon is 355 posts deep at $3.33 a month, described as an intimate room on the internet where readers drop in at tea time for more specific breakdowns of the work, and it carries meditation guides, reading lists and oracle card readings. A poetry collection, Notes on Shapeshifting, came out in 2023; a second book, Practices in Apparition, followed.
@sighswoonpatreon.com/sighswoon
Toby Sola
Meditation, as simple as possible but no simpler
Brightmind is a meditation app built as a progressive path, not a library to browse. Each session builds on the one before it, so what accumulates is genuine skill and not a collection of one-off relaxations. Toby Sola put live daily sits, chat, one-on-one coaching and immersive retreats around it, which is the layer that makes the change stick. Apple has featured it in New Apps We Love; it has won a Google Play award.
@tobysolabrightmind.com
Rachel Clifton
A personal operating system for thinking with AI
Rachel is building a personal operating system for thinking with AI without becoming less human—or less your own. Her background spans strategy and operations in tech (mostly B2B SaaS) and, for the last five years, “very alternative executive coaching” through her own company. Through carefully bounded relationships in which clients were safe and had space to explore power, pleasure, connection, and feeling, she specialised in helping people tell the truth to themselves & others and live in alignment with it. Her current work explores what happens—and becomes possible—when AI participates deeply in human thought while humans remain fully present, agentic, and autonomous.
@rachelclifrachelclifnotes.comlivingart.workrachel@livingart.work
Anita Amini
IFS-informed somatic coaching
Over 1,000 hours of sessions facilitated since spring 2023. Anita Amini is IFS-informed, trained by IFSCA, and the work is somatic IFS coaching: turning inward to explore emotions, body sensations and internal imagery instead of talking around them. IFS, breathwork and somatic work combine to find and heal the young parts holding painful beliefs in place. Sessions run about 90 minutes by video at £100, and always begin with a free discovery call to check the fit.
@neats29infodistillery.com
Richard D. Bartlett
Twenty years inside group dynamics
Twenty years of collaborative living and working. Richard D. Bartlett coaches thoughtful people through complex relationships, leadership and community-building, and the co-founded projects are a list: Microsolidarity, the decision-making software Loomio, the self-managing collective Enspiral, and The Hum, which does non-hierarchical organizational design. Casa Tilo, a retreat center near Barcelona, runs on transformative hospitality. On the side: writing about social group dynamics, and ambient music.
@RichDecibelsrichdecibels.com
Visa
Friendly ambitious nerd, connecting people and ideas
Visakan Veerasamy connects intelligent, kind people to each other; that is the whole project. The Twitter threads are the famous part of it, and readers describe them as having a local library dropped into their timeline. Two ebooks are out, Friendly Ambitious Nerd at 3,000+ copies sold and INTROSPECT at 2,500+, with more in progress on ADHD, strategic thinking and personal psychology. There is consulting too, on branding, positioning and content strategy. It comes out of running marketing at ReferralCandy, where the blog went from 2,000 to 130,000+ monthly hits.
@visakanvvisakanv.comvisakanv@gmail.com
Ashe
Building relational intelligence
Ashe Magalhaes is an AI/ML engineer and founder working on what the site calls relational intelligence, and the creator of Hearth AI, billed as the first agentic CRM. The self-description on X is "techno optimism | aesthetic rapture," which the site's own design backs up. Before this came ML engineering, with Stanford CS, NASA and Apple in the background. Currently somewhere in Italy; the newsletter is at ashe.ai/newsletter.
@ashebytesashe.ai
Sílvia
Drawings of invisible moves and people's vibes
Sílvia makes drawings about inner experience. One series, "invisible moves, visualized," illustrates what the artist describes as "inner moves that have made my life significantly better." Another is vibetraits, which are like portraits, but of people's vibes instead of their faces. A completed challenge sits alongside them: 1,000 copyright-free images published to Flickr inside a single year, free for anyone to use. Prints and a Patreon are both available.
@this_is_silviasilviamakesdrawings.com
Jack Moses
Helping spiritual creators monetize and scale
The Creator Accelerator is a private community for creators and coaches building toward $5,000-$10,000 months. Jack Moses puts the track record at $350,000+ in revenue generated and $15,857 per launch on average, across health, wellness, psychology, content creation and spirituality. Global retreats and events run under the Transcendence banner, and entry is by application, on a call.
@jackmoses777skool.com/fly
Adele Bloch
Connection coaching, and deep talks between strangers
Adele Bloch is, by the self-description, "obsessed with understanding humans - how to live a life of deeper connection with yourself & the world around you." The offering is connection coaching, plus the kind of events where strangers end up in genuinely deep conversation. Friendship, personal development and human connection are what the writing is about. Palo Alto based; the current links live at direct.me/adelebloch.
@adele_blochdirect.me/adelebloch
Christine
The social app for open-minded, embodied communities
cuties is, on the tin, the social app for friendly, open-minded, intellectually-curious and embodied communities. It started as a Twitter dating app and rebranded in 2024, and Christine has been growing it since into something closer to social infrastructure. Profiles, classifieds and community spaces all live inside it, and new features ship continuously.
@christineistcuties.app
Pep
Facilitating deeper connection and authentic relating
Pep facilitates workshops on genuine connection, authenticity and wholeness. The Connection Dojo is the online training; the in-person and virtual workshops cover conversational depth and authentic relating. The blog works through whatever turns up along the way, and the approach integrates playfulness with depth. There is a book too, Effortless, which takes aim at conventional self-development thinking.
@peptalksblogpeptalksblog.com
Daniel Thorson
Contemplative coaching toward deeper truth
Six years of monastic training and over 20,000 hours of meditation, paired with the intellectual range that comes of hosting the Emerge podcast. Daniel Thorson works one-on-one with intellectually sophisticated, successful people who want more authenticity and aliveness than they have got, and the work is getting from insight to embodied change through intimate, honest relationship. Monthly mentorship is available for anyone who wants a trusted outside perspective without the full coaching container. The writing lives at The Intimate Mirror.
@dthorsondthorson.com
Rosa Lewis
Guided journeys through the imaginal realm
The imaginal realm is the part of experience that cannot be reached through intellect alone and has to be embodied to be understood. Rosa Lewis's practice is Shared Imaginal Practice, where people take turns being guided through the contents of their own inner world, rotating through the roles of explorer, guide and witness. One-to-one sessions run 75 minutes over video or voice, used to explore a specific question, create more presence, or open new ways of being. The Imaginal Realm Project, a decentralised collective of leaders researching and propagating this work, sits around it, and there is training for anyone who wants to become an imaginal practitioner.
@rosaclewisimaginaljourneying.com
Isabel
Coaching ambitious creatives back to self-trust
Over 300 coaching sessions and 40-odd clients so far. Isabel works with ambitious creatives and high achievers who have been running on performance and want to start choosing from self-knowledge. There is one-on-one clarity coaching, a program for men called Men to Kings, and a self-guided course, Creative Liberation. Essays go out at mindmine.substack.com.
@isabelunraveledisabelunraveled.comisabel@mindmine.school

Birb
A social lab running experiments as marketing
Soup is a social laboratory. Birb works with teams to design social experiments, events and curated gatherings as marketing, then collects behavioral data from what actually happens in the room and turns it into something actionable. The lab builds its own measurement instruments to analyze activations, feeds what it learns into the next campaign, and publishes appearances, events and reports on the site.


CJ The X
Public philosopher, cyberpunk luddite, rapper
CJ The X is a public philosopher based in Toronto. Since their first video essay went up on YouTube in 2021, the channel has grown to over 350,000 subscribers, 15 million views, a serious crowdfunding base on Patreon and sold-out lecture audiences around the world. The site describes a breathless interdisciplinary approach blending irreverent humour, sharp intellectualism and earnest spirituality, which is about right. Outside the philosophy CJ is a rapper, producer and playwright, most comfortable when they have several projects going in several mediums at once.


Michael Ashcroft
Alexander Technique, for unifying mind and body
Michael Ashcroft teaches the Alexander Technique: unifying mind and body, letting go of unconstructive patterns of tension. The self-paced online course has taken on more than 1,800 students since 2021, and a separate coaching practice uses the Aletheia method to clear whatever is impeding growth. Writing appears on Substack and at Every, expandingawareness.org is the dedicated site, and the YouTube videos are ad-libbed.


Chloe Good
Healing attachment, embodying safety
Healing Attachment, Embodying Safety is the line Chloe Good's practice runs under. The work draws on more than twenty modalities, among them Internal Family Systems, the Adult Attachment Repair Model, somatic therapy, energy work, meditation, life purpose work, archetypal and comedy improv, and strengths-based leadership. Clients are high performers working to find their purpose, get past internal barriers and build the life they actually want to live. Before this came eight years as a leadership professor at Stanford and Sonoma State, and consulting for leaders at eBay, Accenture, Square, Facebook and Bay Area startups.


Myk
A digital garden of functions, ontology, and LLMs
Mykola Bilokonsky keeps a digital garden, "a place to gather thoughts and watch them grow." Not a blog and not a feed: it is organized by what pleases the gardener, not by date. The plots are Talks, LLM Explorations, Philosophical Musing, Neurodiversity and Creative Projects, and the featured pieces include Metastructuralism, RhizomeDB ("towards an assembly language for data"), and a talk called Have You Ever, Like, Really Thought About Functions? A standing invitation sits at the top of every page: Let's Talk.


Ava
Writer, matchmaker, and coach on relationships
Penn, then tech, then full-time writing at 23. Ava publishes regularly on Substack at avabear.xyz about human behavior, romantic and platonic connection, and personal growth, and the work splits three ways: the writing, matchmaking, and coaching. What runs under all of it is emotional integration over intellectualization. "If you're smart and you're not happy, there's a good chance you're disassociated from your feelings" in ways that quietly steer major life decisions.


Daemonic
Financial shadow work and money mapping
Money mapping is financial shadow work. Daemonic traces the web of emotions and relationships sitting underneath money fears and aspirations, then integrates them as a way to grow, working from Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing. The premise is that money behavior which looks irrational on the surface makes complete sense once you see the larger context it belongs to. Sessions can be filmed so prospective clients can watch what one actually looks like, and a YouTube channel digs into the research and phenomenology of finance.


Elena Lake
Regenerative touch for the nervous system
An MIT degree in math, computer science and physics, then machine learning engineering at Meta, then bodywork. Elena Lake formalized the approach as regenerative touch once sessions kept producing unusual results, combining Esalen massage, craniosacral work, fascia technique and organ bodywork. The aim is deep relaxation that also reaches structural and nervous system health. Physical and emotional stress get released together. Classes, writings and a list of recommended practitioners sit alongside the one-on-one sessions.


Tim Blais
A Capella Science, sung many voices deep
Tim Blais makes A Capella Science, where real scientific material gets arranged for stacked vocals and somehow holds up as both. The Patreon carries over 1,300 members and funds roughly $6,000 per video, with exclusive posts and a community around the project. As genres go it is a category of one.


Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Mapping consciousness with physics and phenomenology
Andrés Gómez Emilsson is president of the Qualia Research Institute, a nonprofit think tank studying consciousness through mathematical and empirical methods. The research combines topology, non-linear optics and systematic phenomenology to model how psychedelics alter conscious experience at the computational level. QRI runs HEART retreats for high-energy awareness research and builds tools like the Oscilleditor for visualizing states of consciousness. Also a co-founder of ClusterFree, which pushes psychedelic research and policy reform for cluster headaches, described there as the most painful condition known to mankind.


Sadalsvvd
A new kind of astrology software
Cygnus is astrology software organized around three commitments: beauty, speed, privacy by default. Sadalsvvd has it covering birth charts, solar and lunar returns, secondary progressions, transits and zodiacal releasing, and the flagship is Electional Search, which scans years of sky for the moments matching exact criteria using complex logical operators. It is in early access with more under active development. The Bluesky bio opens with the operating instruction: EXPECT ECLECTICISM.


Marei Christensen
Therapy, coaching, and conflict mediation
Mareike Christensen is a therapist and coach in Sweden, specializing in presence-based work. Individual and couples therapy, coaching, conflict mediation and group courses are all on offer, grounded in cognitive-behavioral tools alongside existential, somatic and transpersonal dimensions. Depression, stress management, intimacy, trauma recovery and personal development are the ground covered, in Stockholm, online, and occasionally Copenhagen.


Ms. G
Building bespoke software for specific people
The GitHub bio is the whole thesis. "I live in Dubai. I don't have a software background. I just really like building things for people I care about." The repos bear it out: four job boards, each tailored to one friend in a different field, scraping Dubai listings and generating customized resumes and cover letters. The most ambitious is Threadthulhu, which maps fifteen-plus years of a Twitter user's tweets with vector embeddings and spatial clustering to make the shape of that person’s thinking visible. Others include felt and unthought. She built all of it with Claude Code, in a collaboration she describes as director plus engineer.


Alexandra
Writer, qigong teacher, follower of the inner path
Alexandra Heller writes Inner Pathing, a Substack on following the inner path, and teaches qigong. The pieces picked out as favourites give the range: "to know the landscape of someone's psyche," "Why don't we talk more about how strange time is?", "Things You're Allowed to Do, That I Would Recommend," and "Letter to My Younger Self." Older blog posts are still up at alexandraheller.com, and the invitation to reach out is standing.


Manon
Personal styling and image direction
CUIR CANNAGE translates personal essence into visual aesthetics. Manon runs four offerings under it: Identity Styling, which is color analysis and wardrobe definition; Wardrobe Curation, organizing what you already own by lifestyle need; Personal Shopping, curated acquisitions matching an established aesthetic; and Image Direction Retainers for ongoing visual strategy. The method is deliberately both analytical and intuitive. The promise on the front page: step into your confidence.


Danny Miranda
Meditation, hypnotherapy, coming home to yourself
Danny Miranda's stated aim is helping people come home to themselves. Talking Meditations, the weekly podcast co-hosted with Tej Dosa, covers the meditative and spiritual end of it. One-on-one there is hypnotherapy and coaching, pointed at increasing love, joy and peace and at clarifying where a life is going, and the group work runs to Best Month Ever, a 30-day mental reprogramming program, plus weekend workshops in Austin.


Mary Zoso
Wholesome, holistic sex coaching
Mary Zoso is a non-judgmental sex coach. One-on-one sessions and small group classes look at people's relationships with arousal, shame and fear, with a particular focus on destigmatizing male sexuality. Everything runs on a sliding scale, no one is turned away for lack of funds, and there is a podcast, Sex & Sensibility, a book, and a run of essays.


Tasshin
Spreading love, following curiosity, empowering others
Tasshin Fogleman founded The Service Guild to demonstrate the intimacy of fun and service. Three things run through everything: spreading love, following curiosity, empowering others. The output is YouTube videos, a newsletter, the Reach Truth podcast, and open availability for calls with anyone who wants one. Brooklyn-based, with a Patreon for supporters and the Guild itself at serviceguild.fun.


Andrew Rose
Six weeks of in-person AI training in NYC
Fractal Accelerator is six weeks, in person, in NYC, capped at 25 people a cohort. Andrew Rose teaches professionals with no coding background to master AI tools and build real things: websites, data visualizations, research reports, video games, even hardware. Saturdays are for learning and co-working; the rest of the week is for applying it to the job you already have. The X bio adds the other half: "Happy husband and father. Trying to make the world a teeny bit better each day with my family and friends. Teaching people to love the new era of computing."


James Stuber
Boring fundamentals and infinite games
"A productivity nerd recovering from an excessive dose of rationalism" is the self-description: someone who built the systems for efficiency and then had to learn to weigh optimization against actually living. James Stuber teaches through a blog, the Digital Productivity Coach platform and YouTube, covering workflow design, boring fundamentals, second-order thinking and personal development. The résumé is eclectic. Advanced language proficiency tests passed, a company founded, weightlifting records broken, digital productivity tools built. The argument underneath is to master the unsexy core skills and spend the freed-up time on learning, exploration and enjoyment.


Paul Millerd
Author of The Pathless Path
The Pathless Path (2022) has reached more than 65,000 readers worldwide; Good Work followed in 2024. Paul Millerd writes about getting past the default career trajectory toward something more intentional. The podcast runs to nearly 200 conversations about unconventional paths, and there is a newsletter on work and creativity plus a community at community.pathlesspath.com.


Xiq
An open tweet database anyone can build on
The Community Archive is an open database and API holding millions of tweets from the volunteered archives of hundreds of accounts. Xiq started it in 2024 as a crowdsourced way to bootstrap data for researching memetics, on the premise that the history of internet subcultures is worth preserving before it disappears. It is open source, so any community can stand up its own. A browser extension streams tweets into it. Things built on top include an archive toolkit for reading threads chronologically, personal semantic search, and a bot that writes tweets out of the archive's most-liked material.


Space Punk
Bardo tour guide, witch, psychofauna exobiologist
"A tour guide, a witch, and a psychofauna exobiologist" is the self-description. Space Punk guides people who have encountered the anomalous, or who want adventure past the edges of ordinary reality, drawing on tantric Buddhism, witchcraft, consciousness exploration and psychedelic art. On offer: live 1:1 bardo tours, cryptic omens and portents, enchanted items and talismans, spells and ritual work, and Mahayana Sutras. The register throughout is esoteric and unmistakably playful.


Maria Falbo
Cultural architect, erotic mystic
Maria Falbo works under the title Cultural Architect, stewarding what the self-description calls "a regenerative ecosystem for creative pioneers built upon the foundations of cosmo erotic humanism." Copson Universe is the founding project. The writing lives on Substack under the name Imagine a beautiful life, and the material is philosophical and cultural, circling personal transformation and systemic renewal at once.


Maja
Writing toward aliveness
velvet noise has tens of thousands of subscribers. The name is a sound design term for the soft, natural reverb used to make digital signals feel more real, and that is the thesis: how to make an increasingly technological world feel human, how to find meaning inside the static. Maja writes about attention, desire, friendship, love, beauty, technology, creative identity, and the environments that shape who we become, with a standing interest in the spaces between art and technology, poetry and research, intuition and institution-building. The long-term ambition is for it to become cultural infrastructure, running to essays, conversations, gatherings and retreats.


Wendell Britt
Redesign your allyship around joy, not obligation
Mastering the Game of Allyship treats allyship as a sustainable practice, not a reliable route to burnout. Wendell Britt built it in three connected pieces: an oracle deck of practical moves for high-pressure moments, a field guide laying out six roles and how to redesign the game itself, and one-on-one coaching to shift from scarcity-driven patterns to satisfaction-based ones. The background is directing DEI and inclusivity at Blue Sky Studios, building allyship curriculum and running alumni engagement, plus teaching writing, hosting a podcast, and training in IFS, shadow work and Jungian psychology. The claim underneath it all: effective allyship requires personal flourishing, not self-sacrifice.


Priya Rose
Built a walkable campus out of friends
It began as an announcement called The Neighborhood NYC with one goal: get 1,000 friendly, ambitious nerds within a five-minute walk of each other. Priya Rose co-founded what became Fractal, now a Brooklyn coliving campus of 36 residents anchoring a community of around 400, plus an apartment building of 60+ and eight more co-living houses spun off across New York City. Several living-room third spaces host co-working, events and classes. Inside all of it sits Fractal University, a bootstrapped community college. It teaches dozens of classes a semester.


Tricia Pickren
Reiki sessions and spiritual mentorship
Tricia Pickren offers reiki and mentorship for people who want to heal and decompress. Sessions come with personalized guidance, help making sense of whatever surfaced and orientation for the wider journey it belongs to. Testimonials describe a safe, trusting space and an approach that listens and guides gently; free resources go out through Substack, YouTube and Instagram.


Mary Bajorek
Career coaching toward work worth loving
Mary Bajorek coaches professionals through career transitions. The typical client is self-aware but stuck: in a role that doesn't fit, hesitating over a change that clearly needs making, or losing focus inside work that ought to feel meaningful. One-on-one coaching, workshop facilitation and speaking are on offer, plus a free Work Worth Loving Starter Kit and a blog. The first hour is free.


Malcolm Ocean
Be in purposeful flow ten minutes from now
Intend connects what you do today to what you are actually trying to do with your life. Malcolm Ocean built it around clarifying what matters and staying aligned with it, so daily intention-setting sits alongside progress tracking across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual horizons, with big goals broken into actions that fit in a day. Four principles run underneath: choosing over organizing, aliveness over exhaustiveness, goals over tasks, proactive over reactive.


Chris Lakin
Clearing internal bottlenecks for AI researchers
Chris Lakin works with researchers at frontier AI labs on whatever is internally in the way of their impact: burnout, coordination trouble, emotional regulation. Engagements run from a single session to multi-week programs, and payment comes after the goal is hit. Outcomes get tracked years later, because the point is durable behavioral change. The site is explicit that none of this is medical treatment, and points anyone in a severe sleep, financial or depressive crisis toward professional support.


Jack Crawford
In-depth game analysis and design criticism
Jack Crawford makes criticism about how games actually work, mostly on YouTube, live every Saturday at 1pm ET. The essays go at design questions most criticism skips: why a mystery is often better as a novel than as a game, what separates bounded puzzle logic from the unbounded, inductive kind that exploration and detective games run on. A 2025 games-of-the-year list came with every title that had turned up on anyone else's list deliberately pruned out. One piece on Post Void reverse-engineered the slide physics down to the optimal backslide angle, then pushed the world record. “Good gameplay doesn’t happen on the screen; it happens in your head.”


Daniel Golliher
A civics academy for how NYC actually works
Maximum New York is a civics school that trains people to understand how New York City's government actually operates. Daniel Golliher founded it, and the classes cover governmental mechanics, case studies of municipal transformation, and the hierarchy running between local, state and federal authority. Where an activist organization would build a large volunteer base, MNY deliberately cultivates a smaller group of highly knowledgeable people who network together on significant civic projects. Students come from technology, government, legislative staff, and ordinary citizenship.


Vivid Void
Meditation, education, and retreat training
Nameless Mountain runs meditation instruction, spiritual training and retreats, aimed at helping people become their strongest, most connected selves. The programming pairs Eastern contemplative traditions with modern educational approaches, and both regular participation and dedicated retreat experiences are available. The X bio, for its part: "I believe in everything. Nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing. Everything is sacred."


Georgie Dorothea
Specialist in uncovering the unconscious mind
Georgie Dorothea works on the unconscious mind, combining psychology with extrasensory perception to find the mental structures that quietly limit a life. One-on-one coaching takes on the blocks that show up in work and relationships, intuition development circles are restarting soon, and energy body readings are meant to reconnect people with what they are actually capable of. The Substack is called Downloads, and it goes under the line "uncovering reality through the felt-senses."


Laura Coe
Akashic Records as a route to the authentic self
Laura Coe works where philosophy meets lived experience, helping people connect with who they actually are. The primary tool is the Akashic Records, described as the energetic space that holds your soul's history, used as a way into wisdom and spiritual awareness. Free introductory courses lead into paid certifications and live classes through The Little Soul School, alongside individual readings, published books, and a podcast called The Art of Authenticity.


Jane
Energy work and death doula care for transitions
Jane Miller calls the work being a naturalist for inner body landscapes. In practice that is touch-based energy work joined to death care: sessions for reaching your own authentic self and inner aliveness, and doula and psychopomp support that runs from everyday transitions all the way to end of life. Intuitive energy reading, imaginal journeying and trauma-informed practice all feed it. There are community events too, and a podcast about death, creativity and transformation.


Sighswoon
Developing a language with the invisible
Gabi Abrão works as sighswoon. The memes, paintings, poems and videos all point at one thing: the invisible, the parts of existence that are intangible and unseen. The Patreon is 355 posts deep at $3.33 a month, described as an intimate room on the internet where readers drop in at tea time for more specific breakdowns of the work, and it carries meditation guides, reading lists and oracle card readings. A poetry collection, Notes on Shapeshifting, came out in 2023; a second book, Practices in Apparition, followed.


Toby Sola
Meditation, as simple as possible but no simpler
Brightmind is a meditation app built as a progressive path, not a library to browse. Each session builds on the one before it, so what accumulates is genuine skill and not a collection of one-off relaxations. Toby Sola put live daily sits, chat, one-on-one coaching and immersive retreats around it, which is the layer that makes the change stick. Apple has featured it in New Apps We Love; it has won a Google Play award.


Rachel Clifton
A personal operating system for thinking with AI
Rachel is building a personal operating system for thinking with AI without becoming less human—or less your own. Her background spans strategy and operations in tech (mostly B2B SaaS) and, for the last five years, “very alternative executive coaching” through her own company. Through carefully bounded relationships in which clients were safe and had space to explore power, pleasure, connection, and feeling, she specialised in helping people tell the truth to themselves & others and live in alignment with it. Her current work explores what happens—and becomes possible—when AI participates deeply in human thought while humans remain fully present, agentic, and autonomous.


Anita Amini
IFS-informed somatic coaching
Over 1,000 hours of sessions facilitated since spring 2023. Anita Amini is IFS-informed, trained by IFSCA, and the work is somatic IFS coaching: turning inward to explore emotions, body sensations and internal imagery instead of talking around them. IFS, breathwork and somatic work combine to find and heal the young parts holding painful beliefs in place. Sessions run about 90 minutes by video at £100, and always begin with a free discovery call to check the fit.


Richard D. Bartlett
Twenty years inside group dynamics
Twenty years of collaborative living and working. Richard D. Bartlett coaches thoughtful people through complex relationships, leadership and community-building, and the co-founded projects are a list: Microsolidarity, the decision-making software Loomio, the self-managing collective Enspiral, and The Hum, which does non-hierarchical organizational design. Casa Tilo, a retreat center near Barcelona, runs on transformative hospitality. On the side: writing about social group dynamics, and ambient music.


Visa
Friendly ambitious nerd, connecting people and ideas
Visakan Veerasamy connects intelligent, kind people to each other; that is the whole project. The Twitter threads are the famous part of it, and readers describe them as having a local library dropped into their timeline. Two ebooks are out, Friendly Ambitious Nerd at 3,000+ copies sold and INTROSPECT at 2,500+, with more in progress on ADHD, strategic thinking and personal psychology. There is consulting too, on branding, positioning and content strategy. It comes out of running marketing at ReferralCandy, where the blog went from 2,000 to 130,000+ monthly hits.


Ashe
Building relational intelligence
Ashe Magalhaes is an AI/ML engineer and founder working on what the site calls relational intelligence, and the creator of Hearth AI, billed as the first agentic CRM. The self-description on X is "techno optimism | aesthetic rapture," which the site's own design backs up. Before this came ML engineering, with Stanford CS, NASA and Apple in the background. Currently somewhere in Italy; the newsletter is at ashe.ai/newsletter.


Sílvia
Drawings of invisible moves and people's vibes
Sílvia makes drawings about inner experience. One series, "invisible moves, visualized," illustrates what the artist describes as "inner moves that have made my life significantly better." Another is vibetraits, which are like portraits, but of people's vibes instead of their faces. A completed challenge sits alongside them: 1,000 copyright-free images published to Flickr inside a single year, free for anyone to use. Prints and a Patreon are both available.


Jack Moses
Helping spiritual creators monetize and scale
The Creator Accelerator is a private community for creators and coaches building toward $5,000-$10,000 months. Jack Moses puts the track record at $350,000+ in revenue generated and $15,857 per launch on average, across health, wellness, psychology, content creation and spirituality. Global retreats and events run under the Transcendence banner, and entry is by application, on a call.


Adele Bloch
Connection coaching, and deep talks between strangers
Adele Bloch is, by the self-description, "obsessed with understanding humans - how to live a life of deeper connection with yourself & the world around you." The offering is connection coaching, plus the kind of events where strangers end up in genuinely deep conversation. Friendship, personal development and human connection are what the writing is about. Palo Alto based; the current links live at direct.me/adelebloch.


Christine
The social app for open-minded, embodied communities
cuties is, on the tin, the social app for friendly, open-minded, intellectually-curious and embodied communities. It started as a Twitter dating app and rebranded in 2024, and Christine has been growing it since into something closer to social infrastructure. Profiles, classifieds and community spaces all live inside it, and new features ship continuously.


Pep
Facilitating deeper connection and authentic relating
Pep facilitates workshops on genuine connection, authenticity and wholeness. The Connection Dojo is the online training; the in-person and virtual workshops cover conversational depth and authentic relating. The blog works through whatever turns up along the way, and the approach integrates playfulness with depth. There is a book too, Effortless, which takes aim at conventional self-development thinking.


Daniel Thorson
Contemplative coaching toward deeper truth
Six years of monastic training and over 20,000 hours of meditation, paired with the intellectual range that comes of hosting the Emerge podcast. Daniel Thorson works one-on-one with intellectually sophisticated, successful people who want more authenticity and aliveness than they have got, and the work is getting from insight to embodied change through intimate, honest relationship. Monthly mentorship is available for anyone who wants a trusted outside perspective without the full coaching container. The writing lives at The Intimate Mirror.


Rosa Lewis
Guided journeys through the imaginal realm
The imaginal realm is the part of experience that cannot be reached through intellect alone and has to be embodied to be understood. Rosa Lewis's practice is Shared Imaginal Practice, where people take turns being guided through the contents of their own inner world, rotating through the roles of explorer, guide and witness. One-to-one sessions run 75 minutes over video or voice, used to explore a specific question, create more presence, or open new ways of being. The Imaginal Realm Project, a decentralised collective of leaders researching and propagating this work, sits around it, and there is training for anyone who wants to become an imaginal practitioner.


Isabel
Coaching ambitious creatives back to self-trust
Over 300 coaching sessions and 40-odd clients so far. Isabel works with ambitious creatives and high achievers who have been running on performance and want to start choosing from self-knowledge. There is one-on-one clarity coaching, a program for men called Men to Kings, and a self-guided course, Creative Liberation. Essays go out at mindmine.substack.com.
