An incomplete list of people I enjoy
In alphabetical order:
- Stephan Ango: Designer and now CEO of Obsidian Notes.
- Gurwinder Bhogal: A self-professed saboteur of narratives. Check out his epic Twitter threads and many podcast appearances, particularly on the Modern Wisdom Podcast.
- Rob Braun: Programmer, tinkerer, computer archeologist. One of the most interesting tech guys you’ve never heard of. Also: XAR!
- drdrang: All around mysterious programmer, structural engineer, and Apple guy.
- Engineer Man: I quickly got up to speed on Docker and JavaScript from his YouTube videos.
- Julia Evans
- Hisashi (Todd) Fujinaka: Programmer, traveler, taker of photos, nice dude.
- The Grugq: Prolific infosec tweeter. Fair warning: if you follow him, he will consume your timeline with his volume of tweets.
- Thomas Frank: Entrepeneur who works in public and shares a lot. really fun watching him evolve.
- Alexey Guzey: Alexey’s site is a rabbit-hole.
- Ian Hanschen: He wrote software you probably use.
- Scott Hanselman: A great teacher of things and an all-around nice guy. If you get a chance, meet him in person.
- Nick Janetakis: Programmer, teacher, YouTuber
- Matt Kelly: Man of the Earth, cDc, Cool Beans! zine, etc.
- Jeff Kirkham: Former Green Beret and excellent post-apocalypse fiction author with an often-broken and inconsistent website.
- Pieter Levels aka levelsio: An “indie hacker” that works in public and shares a lot. Also check out his blog. I find him super interesting.
- George Mack
- Takuya (devaslife) Matsuyama: Programmer, YouTuber with beautiful cinematography, InkDrop app developer.
- Van Neistat: A spirited man and maker and filmmaker. I subscribe to his Patreon
- Naval Ravikant: Useful platitudes emitter
- Derek Sivers: A brilliant writer, podcast guest, and recluse coder. I enjoy his styles
- Michael Stapelberg