I had a list assembled from my blog page here
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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.