Insightful People, Blogs, Books

Technology

• Jeff Lindsay

• Rich Hickey

• Rob Pike

• Alan Kay

• Bret Victor

The Future

• Peter Diamandis

Digital Security

• Bruce Schneier

• Edward Snowden

• Julian Assange

• Jacob Appelbaum

• Motherboard from VICE

Politics and Social Justice

• Progressive

  • Chris Hedges
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Ralph Nader
  • Alan Grayson
  • Naomi Wolf
    • Her advice to Occupy in 2011 on effective protest... which we still don't follow, but must!

• Conservative

  • Larry Wilkerson
  • Ron Paul
  • Ben Shapiro
    • I don't agree with 85% of what he says, but the left needs to take his ideas seriously and understand that conservative != racist
    • PolitiCon Q&A about Trump, Hillary, etc

Economics and Policy

• TheRealNews

• Steve Keen

• Mark Cuban

  • Yes, that Mark Cuban. Sample blog post regarding regulating Wall Street intelligently.

Science and Human Nature

• Steven Pinker

• Richard Dawkins

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rationality

• LessWrong

• Sam Harris

  • Even though he has called for the pre-emptive nuking of Islamic countries if they ever get nukes, he is often quite good

Self-improvement

• Tony Robbins

  • GREAT video interview alongside Peter Diamandis
  • Another fantastic one

• Gabrielle Molina