The builders and thinkers I read and listen to most, and where they teach for free.
I keep a directory of free ways to learn at brianpfeil.com/learn, sorted by goal, and every link opens without signing in. This is one of its paths: 8 resources, with the ones I'd start with marked ⭐.
Simon Willison
- Simon Willison's Weblog ⭐: Daily, hands-on notes on using LLMs to build software. The best single place to keep up with AI as an engineer.
- LLM: A command-line tool for talking to almost any model, local or hosted. Its docs double as a tutorial.
Lex Fridman
- Lex Fridman Podcast: Long-form conversations with AI researchers, engineers and scientists. Full episodes with transcripts.
Andrew Huberman
- Huberman Lab: How the brain and body work, and science-based habits for sleep, focus and learning.
Addy Osmani
- Patterns.dev ⭐: Design, rendering and performance patterns for modern web apps, free, including his JavaScript design patterns book.
- AddyOsmani.com: Essays from a Google engineering lead on AI-assisted coding, working with agents and web performance.
Mitchell Hashimoto
- Writing: The HashiCorp co-founder on building Ghostty, systems programming in Zig and how he works with AI agents.
Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- levels.io: How one person ships and runs profitable products alone: building in public, keeping the stack simple, launching fast.
The up-to-date list, and the other paths (code, cloud, AI, kids and more), is at brianpfeil.com/learn/people/.
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