In addition to the categories listed on the blogroll my RSS reader has one labeled “New” which acts as a saucer for my feed subscriptions. I end up deleting quite a few of these — the post that got me interested may not be representative of the whole thing Which brings up an interesting question of whether or not blogs are ergodic. Let that be an excercise for the reader. — but some do move on. Below are a few of those.
Stories & Journals
- Weird and Deadly Interesting by Ahmet Alphan Sabancı, “a critical futurist, writer, journalist and activist”.
Economy & Finance
- Citation Needed by Molly White, “a researcher, software engineer, and prominent critic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based projects”.
Reading & Writing
- Note to Self by Gina Trapani, “a writer and programmer based in New York City”.
Science & Medicine
- Aaron Cheng, MD by Aaron Cheng, “a classical hematologist and clinical investigator”.
Philosophy & Religion
- Heavy Machinery by Mike Pepi, “a cultural critic”.
Hardware & Software
- Tonsky.me by Nikita Prokopov, “Software Engineer with a vast open-source portfolio and strong UI/UX background.”
- nickschaden by Nick Schaden, “an engineering manager and creative technologist”.
- journal.stuffwithstuff.com by Bob Nystrom, a “programming language developer at Google working on Dart, ex-game developer at EA, UI nerd, author of ‘Game Programming Patterns’ and ‘Crafting Interpreters’”.
- Disconnect by Paris Marx, who " hosts the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation."
- karpathy by Andrej Karpathy, “AI researcher”.
An honorable mention goes to the Bear Blog Discovery feed which will forever remain in the “New” category as new blogs keep bubbling up. That feed is also the reason “Hardware & Software” blogs overrepresented in the above list. My preferred platform, micro.blog, also has a Discovery feed, but since it tends to promote micro posts (duh) it is there more to find new people to follow on micro.blog itself rather than the feed reader.
So, any pointers to non-technical blog chains and other discovery mechanisms would be much appreciated!