Everytime i read stephen wolfram, i can never decide if he’s a genius on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery (emphasis on « on the brink », because i don’t think he has released anything proved to be groundbreaking yet ), or just a former math wiz turned delusional. For example I bought his « new kind of physics » book when it was released, which was philosophically super interesting, yet it’s been 20 years and i…
He is a scientist in the finest sense: he collects lots of data and publishes that data for others to look at and think about for themselves.
His blog is priceless. He does such great deep dives on historical thinkers (Leibniz comes to mind) and travels to where they lived and worked and publishes photos of their original works.
Such a treasure.
(And the products are neat too!)