I don't agree with the view that following specific people's work is the equivalent of cult personality, although thats how cults start out. It's not transposit

I don't agree with the view that following specific people's work is the equivalent of cult personality, although thats how cults start out. It's not transpositional. It's a decent starting point for those just starting out in the community/open source culture to get the hang of it. The general idea however is to keep an eye out on places like HN to general trends and follow popular/radical repositories in those areas. However, I would strongly suggest to not fall for the trap and limit yourself to just following people / news. Get the news but dig deeper, read posts on that topic, clone and play around with repositories, create and share small projects, connect this to what you already know and create ideas, no matter how useless you think it is, read influential papers (re-read them) and get involved in conversations on them. That is more fulfilling and impactful than following personalities.