Here are some resources I think everybody should read/hear/watch/use:
Whatever you can find from Hans Rosling unfolds a new perspective on the world, thanks to his incredible communication style. If you are looking for a starting point, I recommend his first TED Talk and, obviously, his book;
The TED Talk from Tim Urban about procrastinators;
The book "Material World" by Ed Conway (here is his Substack) — every sentence taught me something. Also check out his podcast and his second book!;
A lesson by Patrick Winston about presentation and public speaking;
Ken Robinson's TED talk about creativity, education and making mistakes;
If you are looking to learn about something, you can just pick one of the posts you can find on Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog.
This is my blogroll. I sometimes find new blogs, so the list keeps growing. I'll try to keep it organized.
Blogs I check periodically:
Meadow is the builder of Mire, my favourite RSS reader;
Hannah Ritchie's Substack constantly challenges my understanding of the world; I can't miss a post;
Robin Hawkes' Renewables Map is an astonishing work of data visualization for wind energy development;
If you are into chess, IM Dan Heisman's website and YouTube channel are the most underrated resources you can find out there. I also like GM Daniel King's YouTube channel for match analysis and, obviously, the speedruns from GM Daniel Naroditsky, who passed away very young in 2025. Since then, I use a blue chessboard in his memory.
More people doing stuff:
If you are looking for inspiration about where to start or continue your tech-independence journey, these are the websites I look to for ideas: Joshua Blais', Derek Sivers', Jared Asuncion and Martin Hafskjold Thoresen;
Dave Gauer's blog is one of the most astonishing collection of content I've ever stumbed upon on the internet. I'll mimic his git bare repos;
Terry Godier has built a wonderful and calm RSS reader called Current, together with a tool for writers to help them distribute RSS feeds;
Craig Mod, besides having a beautifully designed membership page, has developed a very interesting concept around pop-up newsletters;
Tierney Cyren has a nice index about getting started with the AT Protocol;
Adam Schwartz, besides building beautiful clean-looking apps, collaborated with Edward Tufte, bringing some of his extraordinary experience to the web. I particularly love his font (that maybe I'll start using for this website someday) and his CSS;
Bret Devereaux's blog is a massive collection of super interesting essays about history.
Some companies that impress me:
I love the simplicity of Svbtle;
desert ant labs; I love the small-model concept;
Andon Labs; I'd love to provide a radio to an AI agent;
reasonable work, for its values.
