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If you see me with earphones on, I'd most likely be listening to these.

Theo BrowneThePrimeagenLinus Tech TipsVeritasium & Cleo Abram

I spend a lot of time with headphones in. Commutes, walks, the time between things. Podcasts and YouTube are basically background infrastructure for how I think, and these are the people who've consistently earned the runtime.

Theo Browne (T3.gg) is probably where I'd start. He was the first big tech/web/AI dev-creator I stumbled across when I got active on Twitter, and that was a genuinely lucky entry point. His advice is the kind you actually try to incorporate day-to-day, not just nod along to and forget. He has this rare ability to be deliberately provocative and still stay informative throughout, which shouldn't work but somehow always does.

The one thing that genuinely sucks is that his stream schedule runs 3:30 to 8:30am Singapore time, so I'm catching VODs more often than not.

ThePrimeagen is the other side of that coin. Where Theo is opinionated about product and tooling, Prime is unhinged about performance and systems in the best possible way. Good for when you want someone to remind you that you should probably care more about the fundamentals than you currently do.

Linus Tech Tips and MKBHD have been around for longer than I've cared about any of this. LTT for when I want to know everything about a piece of hardware I will definitely not be buying, MKBHD for when I want that same information but presented like it belongs in a museum. Both serve a purpose.

Then there's the other category entirely: 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Cleo Abram.

These three are doing something different. It's not just that the content is good, it's that they make you feel like you actually understood or learnt something new by the end, not just that you watched something for the hell of it. 3Blue1Brown especially, the way he visualises mathematical concepts is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why every piece of educational content doesn't work this way.

Somewhere between Theo's takes on shipping software obsessing over Obsidian (jk) and Veritasium's stuff on science and history, I've probably assembled a fairly chaotic curriculum for myself. I love it.

If you're not watching any of these, pick one and start. You'll figure out which ones stick, and you'll thank me for it.

Writing

Hobbies

Background Infrastructure

If you see me with earphones on, I'd most likely be listening to these.

Theo BrowneThePrimeagenLinus Tech TipsVeritasium & Cleo Abram

I spend a lot of time with headphones in. Commutes, walks, the time between things. Podcasts and YouTube are basically background infrastructure for how I think, and these are the people who've consistently earned the runtime.

Theo Browne (T3.gg) is probably where I'd start. He was the first big tech/web/AI dev-creator I stumbled across when I got active on Twitter, and that was a genuinely lucky entry point. His advice is the kind you actually try to incorporate day-to-day, not just nod along to and forget. He has this rare ability to be deliberately provocative and still stay informative throughout, which shouldn't work but somehow always does.

The one thing that genuinely sucks is that his stream schedule runs 3:30 to 8:30am Singapore time, so I'm catching VODs more often than not.

ThePrimeagen is the other side of that coin. Where Theo is opinionated about product and tooling, Prime is unhinged about performance and systems in the best possible way. Good for when you want someone to remind you that you should probably care more about the fundamentals than you currently do.

Linus Tech Tips and MKBHD have been around for longer than I've cared about any of this. LTT for when I want to know everything about a piece of hardware I will definitely not be buying, MKBHD for when I want that same information but presented like it belongs in a museum. Both serve a purpose.

Then there's the other category entirely: 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Cleo Abram.

These three are doing something different. It's not just that the content is good, it's that they make you feel like you actually understood or learnt something new by the end, not just that you watched something for the hell of it. 3Blue1Brown especially, the way he visualises mathematical concepts is the kind of thing that makes you wonder why every piece of educational content doesn't work this way.

Somewhere between Theo's takes on shipping software obsessing over Obsidian (jk) and Veritasium's stuff on science and history, I've probably assembled a fairly chaotic curriculum for myself. I love it.

If you're not watching any of these, pick one and start. You'll figure out which ones stick, and you'll thank me for it.