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Ask HN: Which hackers should I be following these days?
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90 points
by ianlotinsky
2854 days ago
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10-15 years ago, I worked a corporate job, which I genuinely enjoyed for many reasons. While there, my imagination and energy exploded as I discovered and drank up all that Joel Spolsky, Paul Graham, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Jeff Atwood, and Michael Lopp had to write. It was a renaissance for the industry and for me personally. Their thoughts introduced and propelled me into the software startup world, made me a valuable asset to my employers, and led to me being in leadership positions. I'm looking for that sort of learning and insight again but not really finding it organically. These greats certainly haven't lost their mojo. They weren't a fad like most thinkers and writers online are or have been. I'm simply wondering if there are additional folks I should be following this decade because they're building the next renaissance. Please list any up-and-coming changemakers you follow below. Thanks! |
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Chris Coyier - Creator of codepen, his idea of micro-services speaks mimics my own thought processes
Tania Rascia -Webdeveloper who has great eye for design, simple bullshit free site with great tutorials
James Burton -Youtuber who makes all sorts of awesome robots, BB2 from starwars and bostondynamic replicas.
Devon Zuegel - Big fan of her writing style and her way of thinking, in some ways they mimic my own
David K Piano - developer who just does magic with CSS / react, and plays the piano
Joshua Oluwagbemiga - Nigerian Developer who gets what the future of UX should look like and is able to create that mockup experience
Sirupsen - Shopify Developer Lead who has great design philosophies
Sindre Sorhus - Opensource NodeJS developer who has built hundreds of libraries used today
Jeremy Thomas - The CSS Guru who knows how to architect complex CSS structure
Jen Simmons - Mozilla Designer Advocate, someone who actually understands design philosophy and its history.
Destin Sandlin - Creator of Smarter Every Day, someone who is passionate about sharing and exploring engineering principles
Mark Rober - Same as above
Tom Scott - Same as above, but more cultural and computerscience topics
Gordon Zhu - Exgoogler who is a fantastic teacher in software design practices & workflows
Xavier Decuyper - Youtuber who makes well explained Cryptocurrency Tutorials
Derek Banas - Youtuber who makes tutorials on every programming languages in existence + cooking
Michael Nielsen YC combinator researcher- I enjoy reading his work related to augmentive cognition and neuroscience
Glutanimate - Medical Professional / Python developer who makes popular plugins for anki, space-repetition learning software
Patrick Shyu- -Youtuber who runs Tech Lead. Feels like an older, more matured / intelligent version of myself
Casey Neistat - Well known youtube vlogger, someone who appreciates in telling stories first before tools
Mattias Petter Johansson - Youtuber who runs FunFunFunction, someone who understands the simplicity of tools in complex dev environments ("tooling maintenance cost")
Grant Sanderson - Youtuber who makes 3blue1brown, some of the best youtube math videos to date.
Teran Van Hemert - Video editor for Linus Tech Tips, his enthusiasm of macros and workflows resemble my own
Evan & Katlyn - Possibly best youtube makerspace videos / small industrial fabrication, I have 1000+ subbed channels and subbed when they were nothing, their marketing execution & creativity is unparalled. I don't give compliments like this often either.
Peter Levels - Pretty famous for being a mostly 1 man successful startup scene. Someone who really gets tech solves business problems, not the other way around
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All the people you mentioned are famous, but I'm following a mix of rapidly growing underdogs / semifamous people in multiple industries. Each person was carefully chosen in their respective field, because I want a good mix of backgrounds. When you get to the very top, things become stagnant, you might not be innovating anymore, rather just repeating yourself from past experience. Its like a rapper who becomes famous and can't write songs anymore, because he's so out of touch from what his humble beginnings were.
I can tell just seeing a bit of their work that they are truly unique different & innovative, and offer insights no one else has. I'm always collecting a LOT of data so I'm always curating the best people to follow.
I can just tell who speaks from mountains of wisdom/experience VS who does not. When you start reflecting on yourself, it becomes obvious which people worth following have as well.