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.
> 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
There are complexities to real life that we as civilians aren't aware of, that make many of the claims made in the world just outright absurd if you're even slightly aware of the details. In at least one case for each of them, along with Paul at Combat Vet News, and CivDiv on YouTube, this has happened.
YouTube and video on demand is an amazing gift. Life with only 3 major TV channels was so limiting, and we didn't even know it.
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.
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.
There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.