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Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?

12 points by cl42 2y ago

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?

nicbou 2y ago
Simon Sarris is a new favourite of mine. It’s very gentle and thoughtful.
cm2123 2y ago
fs.blog
revskill 2y ago
I follow my yesterday self !
handfuloflight 2y ago
I have a dedicated email inbox for newsletters, and for blogs that don't have a newsletter I use https://rssby.email/ 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.
- cl42 2y ago
  What a great list. Thank you!
esperent 2y ago
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.
- cl42 2y ago
  I go back and forth on paying for it. I tend to subscribe for a few months, cancel, and restart. I imagine there's not many such analysts because the quality of writing is so high but... I wish there were more! :)
mikewarot 2y ago
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 https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.
- 2y ago

12 points by cl42 2y ago

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?

nicbou 2y ago

Simon Sarris is a new favourite of mine. It’s very gentle and thoughtful.

cm2123 2y ago

fs.blog

revskill 2y ago

I follow my yesterday self !

handfuloflight 2y ago

I have a dedicated email inbox for newsletters, and for blogs that don't have a newsletter I use https://rssby.email/ 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.

cl42 2y ago
What a great list. Thank you!

esperent 2y ago

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.

cl42 2y ago
I go back and forth on paying for it. I tend to subscribe for a few months, cancel, and restart. I imagine there's not many such analysts because the quality of writing is so high but... I wish there were more! :)

mikewarot 2y ago

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 https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.

2y ago