HACKER Q&A
📣 cl42

What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?


I'm a fan of Stratechery and Gwern, and am wondering who else is out there that I should be tracking and reading regularly.

Who do you follow?

Also, what tools do you use to follow them?

  👤 mikewarot Accepted Answer ✓ 

  Doc Searls - One of the early bloggers, editor of the Linux Journal, pushing for a better internet
  Dave Winer - one of the creators of RSS, sometimes has interesting thoughts about the subject
  Sabine Hossenfelder, Angela Collier - Sane critiques of the world of physics
  Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) - Doing cool shit with the stuff others invent
  Jeff Geerling - at the intersection of technology and radio
  Kevlin Henney - really strong wisdon about programming, convinced me that immutable data was actually a useful idea
  Sam Zeloof and Atomic Semi - He made chips in his parents garage, now he's working on the equivalent of a 3d printer for ASICs.
  Justine Tunney - Actually making full use of the machines we all have after decades of Moore's law.
  George Hotz - helping to impedance match compute hardware with applications of deep learning. (TinyGrad) Absolutely hates systolic arrays, he's mostly right. Oh... and the only person offering working mostly self driving for a Tesla (and other cars)
  Jason Scott - Archivist, story teller
  Grant Sanderson - 3 Blue 1 Brown, telling stories about math, and making tools to help visualize them
  Eric Weinstein - Strongly held opinions, most of them correct, novel insights about the world like the Embedded Growth Obligation that is deranging our institutions.
  CGP Grey - Famous Recluse, awesome explainer. I'm still waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet.
  Edward Snowden - Traitor or Hero, the man who told us a bit about what the deep state is up to
  John Robb - Deep thinker about the future of society and the internet on the large scale. He introduced me to the OODA loop, etc.
  Dylan Beattie - Story teller, inventor of the RockStar programming language, convinced me that Unicode is a good idea after all
  Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State - Joining things together that are otherwise impossible, only publishes every few years
  Jeri Ellsworth - Hacker, made transistors by hand
  John Plant / Primitive Technology - Researching the foundations of our world by doing, watch his channel with the subtitles on... he starts with a sharp rock, and works his way up through buildings with tile roofs, and iron smelting

  Ryan McBeth, Ward Carroll - Two (ex) military guys who fill in a lot of details about how the world *really* works.
  Peter Zeihan, Robert Morris / @RobboLaw, Vlad Vexler - Geopolitical analysis, they kind of balance each other out

  Barry Mehler / MoreBadNews, Nate Hagens - Covering the eventual collapse of our world, ecosystem, etc.
My youtube follow list is public: https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions

There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.

👤 esperent
I also like Statechery for takes on the financial side of tech that I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. There's only a few free posts a year but they're long and usually worth reading in full. I've tried quite a bit to find other analysts of equal depth and mostly failed. My conclusion is that there just aren't many of them out there.
👤 nicbou
Simon Sarris is a new favourite of mine. It’s very gentle and thoughtful.
👤 handfuloflight
I have a dedicated email inbox for newsletters, and for blogs that don't have a newsletter I use https://rssby.email/ to receive them. Keeps my main inbox clean and when I want to dive in, I know where to look.

Here are some of my subscriptions:

Sacra

Every.to

David Perell

Animalz

Demand Curve

Seth Godin

Eugene Yan

A Smart Bear

Benedict Evans

explaining.software

Jason Liu

...and many more that I am missing that I have move over to this dedicated inbox from my main inbox.

👤 revskill
I follow my yesterday self !
👤 cm2123
fs.blog