You can also find a list of engineering blogs here: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
woah that list is huge!
Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#132I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings. I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
Do you think it's not helping as much due to narrower and narrower specialization, that is it isn't helping as broad a community that it once did but helping many small communities scattered about?
It's more that things are changing faster and faster. At the same time, my life is progressing (wife, kids, commute) and I have less time to focus and devote to learning.
At some point, I feel like I have to focus on the whole package and being a rounded human instead of knowing all the new hotness. Thats what I really feel Tims podcast fosusses on; doing less with more and optimising life with whatever advantage is at hand.
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#133I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings. I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
Can you list a few examples of things you have learned or been enlightened about?
Josh is a revelation: Making smaller circles (there's an article on this on his blog and in the book that is a great read). Also, everything he learned, he's able to apply to something from a completely different field to speed up his progress.
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kuro5hin's alexa rank is about 300,000 also many stories have significant pagerank. One can see from google trends that k5 is a popular site to read, but the five dollar one-time troll suppression fee discourages new members.
I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.
That fee was established to keep a lid on Jason Pawloski, no one else.
Unfortunately, five dollars is far beyond the means of much of the earth's population.
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#135Frequently: http://www.economist.com/ - my second best feed (after HN) Occasionally: http://www.datatau.com/ - HN for data science https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics, Theoretical Physics https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics http://slatestarcodex.com/ - Less Wrong-kind stuff (the guy writes frequent and well, but somehow too verbosely) http://visualizing.org/ - data visualizations A bit of G+…
Would you mind sharing some of your G+ follows? Brian Koberlein (https://plus.google.com/+BrianKoberlein) is definitely one of my favourites.
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#136I really enjoy "programming in the twenty-first century"
http://prog21.dadgum.com/
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#137For Android engineering :
-you must listen to Android Devs Backstage : http://androidbackstage.blogspot.fr/ It is animated by key members of the Android team at Google, so they offer really good insights on the platform and its internals. Even if you are a senior android engineer, you are going to learn new things. Sadly, that's the only android podcast I can really recommend (if you know any good alternatives, feel free to let me know).
- many engineering blogs : etsy, instagram, square, facebook, ..
-it is a good idea to follow googlers and experienced devs on G+.
-for consumer oriented blogs : http://www.computerworld.com/blog/android-power JR Raphael makes awesome reviews where he spent weeks with a device in order to really know it.
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#138Frequently: http://www.economist.com/ - my second best feed (after HN) Occasionally: http://www.datatau.com/ - HN for data science https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics, Theoretical Physics https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ - Mathematics http://slatestarcodex.com/ - Less Wrong-kind stuff (the guy writes frequent and well, but somehow too verbosely) http://visualizing.org/ - data visualizations A bit of G+…
Would you mind sharing some of your G+ follows? Brian Koberlein ( https://plus.google.com/+BrianKoberlein ) is definitely one of my favourites.
John Baez (https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts) (especially), Artem Kaznatcheev (https://plus.google.com/101780559173703781847/posts), Timothy Govers (https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts), Michael Nielsen (https://plus.google.com/+MichaelNielsen/posts) among others (but it's not a well-curated list; and I tend to use G+ less and less often, for too much noise).
Re: Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
#139I'm really getting a lot out of Tim Ferriss' podcast http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ lately. Especially the episodes with Kelly Starrett, Josh Waitzkin, Sam Harris, Peter Attia, Pavel Tsatsouline and Whitney Cummings. I think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
This crowd might particularly enjoy his interview with Samy Kamkar (of MySpace worm fame). It gave me a few laughs and provided some inspiration to just try things and get stuff done, rather than over-analyzing everything and just sitting there spinning my wheels... a reminder I seem to need every couple of years or so :)
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