Updates Thread. Below are occational updates with lists of new tacit knowledge videos so you don’t have to scroll through the list again to find new videos.
“Meehl was a philosopher of science, a statistician, and a lifelong clinical psychologist. He wrote a book showing that statistical prediction usually beats clinical judgement in 1954, and a paper on the replication crisis in psychology in 1978. He personally knew people like Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, etc. and brings their insights to life in these course lectures.”
Me: I was hesitant to add a lecture series to this list at first. I changed my mind after listening to the first video, where Meehl provides interesting details (gossip, almost) about the life of an academic and the various personalities of his successful academic peers.
“Kenneth Folk is an instructor of meditation who has received worldwide acknowledgement for his innovative approach to secular Buddhist meditation. After twenty years of training in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, including three years of intensive silent retreat in monasteries in Asia and the U.S., he began to spread his own findings, successfully stripping away religious dogma to render meditation accessible to modern practitioners” (Website).
“Construction contractor, DIY living off-grid in Alaska and Michigan.”
“He and his wife bootstrapped themselves building their own cabin, then house, sell at a profit, rinse and repeat a few times. There are many, many videos of people building their own cabins, etc. Dave’s are simple, clear, lucid, from a guy who’s done it many times and has skin in the game.”
“Pianist and composer, performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University.”
“Tonebase (a paid music learning service) recorded a number of free to watch conversations with Bernstein while he plays through or teaches a piece. Bernstein is about 90 years old at the time of recording and shares an incredible amount of tacit knowledge, especially about body mechanics when playing piano.”
“My job as a bush pilot is to fly missionaries, medical flights, and cargo into mountain and jungle airstrips throughout all of [Papua New Guinea]” (YouTube).
“Consultant, Business Coach, and Co-Author of The Chairs Are Where The People Go.”
Testimonials: Mark Surman, President of Mozilla; Shenda Tanchak, Registrar & CEO of Ontario College of Pharmacists; Michael Bungay Stanier, Author of The Coaching Habit; others (Website).
“Advoko has a site in the woods near Lake Ladoga in Russia where he films himself building various improvements by hand with local materials. Very competent craftsman, professional touch with no hype.”
“Watch some of the best SOLIDWORKS, OnShape, Fusion 360 and Inventor users Speedrun some challenging models while going head to head and sharing their screens” (YouTube).
Has worked in roles dealing with computer graphics at Pixar Animation Studios, Oculus Story Studio, Oculus+Facebook, Adobe, and other places since 2003 (Website).
“Dan Gelbart has been Founder and CTO of hardware companies for over 40 years, and shares his deep knowledge of tips and tricks for fast, efficient, and accurate mechanical fabrication. He covers a variety of tools, materials, and techniques that are extremely valuable to have in your toolbox.”
Carl Rogers. Founder of person-centered psychotherapy; one of the founders of humanistic psychology (Wikipedia).
Frederick Perls. Developed Gestalt therapy with his wife, Laura Perls (Wikipedia).
Albert Ellis. Founder of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) (Wikipedia).
Everett Shostrom. Put together the film. “He also produced well known tests and inventories including the Personal Orientation Inventory, Personal Orientation Dimensions, the Pair Attraction Inventory, and the Caring Relationship Inventory ” (Wikipedia).
Arnold Lazurus. “Authored the first text on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) called Behaviour Therapy and Beyond” and won various awards including two from the American Psychological Association and the American Board of Professional Psychology (Wikipedia).
Aaron Beck. “He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)” (Wikipedia).
“Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. [...] Damodaran is best known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management as well as provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes” (Wikipedia).
Anecdote from an experienced finance friend: “Damodaran is an NYU prof who’s super credible and well regarded for his practical tutorials on valuations and corporate finance, I used to refer to his blog often.”
Guitarist who has contributed to albums like Thundercat’s “Drunk” and John Mayer’s “Paradise Valley.” Has toured with Jonny Land and John Mayer (Website).
“[S]ophomore at MIT [...], IOI 2020 Winner, Codeforces Max Rating 2931 (International Grandmaster), CodeChef Max Rating 2916 (7 stars)” (YouTube About).
Steven Ramsey, 200 days of woodworking projects during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Hobbyist woodworker turned woodworking content creator (1.9M YouTube subscribers); formerly a professional graphic designer (Website).
Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks for ~9.5 years, Group Engineering Manager at Khan Academy for ~7.5 years, and YouTuber with 1.2M subscribers (LinkedIn, YouTube).
Yale clinician-researcher known for clear statistical explanations.
“Bite-sized videos explaining how to approach medical research people. Last updated July 30 2020, so hopefully it reached many people during those confusing times and helped them strenghten their intellectual self defense.”
Intensive fundamentals course that applies across cuisines.
“F-STEP cooking curriculum is a classic to me… first and foremost it taught me the importance of salt and what type to use when, and i think about that every time i’m cooking. goes way beyond that in the series. solid foundational info that applies to all kinds of cooking.”
Veteran browser/kernel engineer building Ladybird from scratch.
“Andreas livestreams himself working on the ambitious written-from-scratch Ladybird browser all while maintaining a friendly and welcoming attitude, not something that can be said for every programming streamer!”
Deep-prep podcaster interviewed by an learning researcher.
“Joe Walker puts extensive effort into researching and studying before his podcast interviews in order to come up with good and not just surface level questions for his expert guests. He also focuses on retaining the information and gaining a deep understanding which helps with subsequent conversations around similar topics.”
Co-founder and longtime head of design at 37signals.
“Live step by step walkthrough of breaking down and designing a feature for a web app through various stages of fidelity from basic structure to HTML.”
UI designer and co-author of the Refactoring UI book.
“Live breakdowns of how real existing designs/pages/interfaces fail and working through improvements to make them clearer and more usable (and better looking) live and step by step.”
“Experienced designer breaks down and critiques designs from his employees and course students, showing how certain changes affect the overall layout and how it could be improved, often mentioning the principles he applies throughout. Was really helpful in learning some things about visual balance, contrast, and so on.”
Five-time U.S. Chess Champion and leading blitz specialist.
“Hikaru streams and comments games, and of course plays himself. For example, in a video ‘How to Crush a 500, Every Step Explained’ he plays different people from 500 to ~2700 Elo for an hour, explaining each move, which is fascinating to watch, and to understand how a mind of a grandmaster works.”
“Dan dives deep into React’s core logic, which is already very interesting, at the same time the videos are pretty simple to watch and following Dan’s thoughts can be really exciting. Besides React, he has videos where he recreates Wordle, Snake, Minesweeper games, solves Advent of Code puzzles.”
Grandmaster and top bullet player known for instructive commentary.
“Daniel streams himself playing chess while talking through every decision to a very deep level. He discusses why he makes certain moves and why certain moves feel better than others.”
“Matt’s videos are really informative and his primary goal is to show that DMing is a straightforward thing that anyone can do, not something reserved for certain members of the tabletop RPG hobby. I’ve tried to pick out a few of his videos that are especially hands-on, but he has lots more which are very useful.”
Fully open startup ecosystem sharing notes, budgets, and strategy docs.
“This isn’t a video, but it’s probably relevantly close. All Manifold-sphere things are public — all meeting notes, budgets/finances, strategy docs, etc. I think that someone could learn a lot of tacit knowledge based on how the Manifold-sphere teams work by skimming e.g. our meeting notes docs, which are fairly comprehensive/extensive.”
Channel run by a former Google engineer who methodically “reads” large open-source projects—Linux kernel, Blender, Git—while narrating each investigative step.
Founder-CEO of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur; shares raw board-meeting recordings and work sessions covering product roadmaps and revenue metrics.
Provides a transparent example of lean, remote startup management and “build-in-public” decision-making
Independent podcaster known for extensive preparation; this episode pairs the finished interview with a publicly released packet of his notes and source documents.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University and Director of ASU’s Center for Cybersecurity & Trusted Foundations; leads their internationally ranked CTF team.
A 17-video series that solves each level of the pwnable.kr binary-exploitation wargame, narrated step-by-step from vulnerability discovery to exploit.
Buchheit created Gmail and later became a Y Combinator partner; Altman is co-founder / CEO of OpenAI and was YC’s president at the time of recording.
Two founders present, receive Buchheit’s critique, then hear Altman repitch—an inside look at how veteran investors probe and reframe early-stage ideas.
The all-remote DevOps company that went public on Nasdaq in 2021 at an $11 billion valuation shares >12k raw meeting, architecture-review, and demo videos under its “default-open” policy.
World’s most-subscribed individual YouTuber (300M+ subscribers), known for large-scale philanthropy and record-setting view counts.
Reviews budget, crew logistics, and set-design choices for a $100 million reality series, illustrating cost control and high-volume production planning.
Dill led design at Airbnb and Lyft before heading Stripe Design; Epstein is a YC Group Partner and co-founder of Creative Market (acquired by Autodesk).
Applies conversion-focused heuristics to early-stage landing pages, highlighting hierarchy, trust signals, and copy clarity.
Creator of the 7M-subscriber mathematics channel and original author of the open-source Manim animation engine; taught MIT’s Intro to Computational Thinking.
Demonstrates project structure, scene scripting, and render iteration for producing visual maths explanations.
Founder of Destroy All Software and author of the famed “Wat” lightning talk; delivers dense 10–15-minute screencasts on Unix, testing, and language design.
“Kenneth Folk is an instructor of meditation who has received worldwide acknowledgement for his innovative approach to secular Buddhist meditation. After twenty years of training in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, including three years of intensive silent retreat in monasteries in Asia and the U.S., he began to spread his own findings, successfully stripping away religious dogma to render meditation accessible to modern practitioners” (Website).
Per his about, Gwern has also “worked for, published in, or consulted for: Wired, MIRI/SIAI, CFAR, GiveWell, the FBI, Cool Tools, Quantimodo, New Work Encyclopedia, Bitcoin Weekly, Mobify, Bellroy, Dominic Frisby, and private clients” (Website).
I’ve had a busy past few months (if a three-month meditation retreat counts as busy). There have been more videos submitted than videos added to the post in this batch. I will add these in the coming months.
Updates Thread. Below are occational updates with lists of new tacit knowledge videos so you don’t have to scroll through the list again to find new videos.
Below are the new tacit knowledge videos added to the post since mid-April, 2024.
Paul Meehl, Philosophical Psychology 1989 course lectures, “deep introduction to 20c philosophy of science, using psychology rather than physics as the model science—because it’s harder!” (via @Jonathan Stray)
“Meehl was a philosopher of science, a statistician, and a lifelong clinical psychologist. He wrote a book showing that statistical prediction usually beats clinical judgement in 1954, and a paper on the replication crisis in psychology in 1978. He personally knew people like Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, etc. and brings their insights to life in these course lectures.”
Me: I was hesitant to add a lecture series to this list at first. I changed my mind after listening to the first video, where Meehl provides interesting details (gossip, almost) about the life of an academic and the various personalities of his successful academic peers.
Kenneth Folk, Guided Tour to 13 Jhanas.
“Kenneth Folk is an instructor of meditation who has received worldwide acknowledgement for his innovative approach to secular Buddhist meditation. After twenty years of training in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, including three years of intensive silent retreat in monasteries in Asia and the U.S., he began to spread his own findings, successfully stripping away religious dogma to render meditation accessible to modern practitioners” (Website).
Dave Whipple, building a “[s]imple off grid Cabin that anyone can build & afford (and many other builds on his channel). (via @Vitor)
“Construction contractor, DIY living off-grid in Alaska and Michigan.”
“He and his wife bootstrapped themselves building their own cabin, then house, sell at a profit, rinse and repeat a few times. There are many, many videos of people building their own cabins, etc. Dave’s are simple, clear, lucid, from a guy who’s done it many times and has skin in the game.”
Seymour Bernstein, teaching piano. (via @lfrymire)
“Pianist and composer, performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University.”
“Tonebase (a paid music learning service) recorded a number of free to watch conversations with Bernstein while he plays through or teaches a piece. Bernstein is about 90 years old at the time of recording and shares an incredible amount of tacit knowledge, especially about body mechanics when playing piano.”
RegLocal, advanced driving. (via @masasin)
“former police driving instructor; he has a book, but the videos themselves are so helpful”
Ryan Farran (Missionary Bush Pilot), flying small aircraft in Papua New Guinea. (via @masasin)
“My job as a bush pilot is to fly missionaries, medical flights, and cargo into mountain and jungle airstrips throughout all of [Papua New Guinea]” (YouTube).
Misha Glouberman, Recorded Coaching Session. (via @Misha Glouberman)
“Consultant, Business Coach, and Co-Author of The Chairs Are Where The People Go.”
Testimonials: Mark Surman, President of Mozilla; Shenda Tanchak, Registrar & CEO of Ontario College of Pharmacists; Michael Bungay Stanier, Author of The Coaching Habit; others (Website).
Max Egorov, “[b]ushcraft and off-grid craftsmanship”. (Russian narration) (via @TANSTAAFL)
“Advoko has a site in the woods near Lake Ladoga in Russia where he films himself building various improvements by hand with local materials. Very competent craftsman, professional touch with no hype.”
Various skilled CAD users and instructors, CAD vs. CAD Speedrunning Tournament. (via @zookini)
“Watch some of the best SOLIDWORKS, OnShape, Fusion 360 and Inventor users Speedrun some challenging models while going head to head and sharing their screens” (YouTube).
Scott Chacon, “So You Think You Know Git” (Part 2). (via @Max Entropy)
Co-founder of GitHub and author of Pro Git.
Inigo Quilez, computer graphics programming. (via @Robert Diersing)
Has worked in roles dealing with computer graphics at Pixar Animation Studios, Oculus Story Studio, Oculus+Facebook, Adobe, and other places since 2003 (Website).
Dan Gelbart, Building Prototypes (18 Part Series). (via @Adrian Kelly)
“Dan Gelbart has been Founder and CTO of hardware companies for over 40 years, and shares his deep knowledge of tips and tricks for fast, efficient, and accurate mechanical fabrication. He covers a variety of tools, materials, and techniques that are extremely valuable to have in your toolbox.”
Hrishi Olickel, creating a proof-of-concept Web App using LLMs.
CTO at Greywing (YC W21) (GitHub).
Carl Rogers, Frederick Perls, Albert Ellis, Everett Shostrom, Arnold Lazurus, Aaron Beck: Three Approaches to Psychotherapy—recorded therapy sessions.
Carl Rogers. Founder of person-centered psychotherapy; one of the founders of humanistic psychology (Wikipedia).
Frederick Perls. Developed Gestalt therapy with his wife, Laura Perls (Wikipedia).
Albert Ellis. Founder of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) (Wikipedia).
Everett Shostrom. Put together the film. “He also produced well known tests and inventories including the Personal Orientation Inventory, Personal Orientation Dimensions, the Pair Attraction Inventory, and the Caring Relationship Inventory ” (Wikipedia).
Arnold Lazurus. “Authored the first text on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) called Behaviour Therapy and Beyond” and won various awards including two from the American Psychological Association and the American Board of Professional Psychology (Wikipedia).
Aaron Beck. “He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)” (Wikipedia).
Aswath Damodaran, “Reading a 10K”.
“Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. [...] Damodaran is best known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management as well as provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes” (Wikipedia).
Anecdote from an experienced finance friend: “Damodaran is an NYU prof who’s super credible and well regarded for his practical tutorials on valuations and corporate finance, I used to refer to his blog often.”
Zane Carney; composing, recording, and producing music live.
Guitarist who has contributed to albums like Thundercat’s “Drunk” and John Mayer’s “Paradise Valley.” Has toured with Jonny Land and John Mayer (Website).
Shannon (House Improvements), “How to build a deck” (6 Part Series).
Has been in the construction industry for decades. Runs his own renovation business. 925K YouTube subscribers (Channel Trailer).
Me: A friend of mine successfully built a deck using this playlist as a guide.
René Rebe, live streaming Linux, open source, and low-level programming hardware and software projects.
CEO of ExactCODE GmbH since 2005 (LinkedIn).
BNYX, Olswelm, and other indie (?) music producers; music production livestream VODs.
Unsure of credibility. A friend into music production recommended some of the videos on this channel. He specifically liked BYNX and olswel.
William Lin, competitive programming.
“[S]ophomore at MIT [...], IOI 2020 Winner, Codeforces Max Rating 2931 (International Grandmaster), CodeChef Max Rating 2916 (7 stars)” (YouTube About).
Steven Ramsey, 200 days of woodworking projects during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Hobbyist woodworker turned woodworking content creator (1.9M YouTube subscribers); formerly a professional graphic designer (Website).
Ben Eater, “Build a 65c02-based computer from scratch”.
Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks for ~9.5 years, Group Engineering Manager at Khan Academy for ~7.5 years, and YouTuber with 1.2M subscribers (LinkedIn, YouTube).
Below are the new tacit knowledge videos added today (the last update was August 2024).
F. Perry Wilson, “Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong” (h/t @Marius Adrian Nicoară)
Yale clinician-researcher known for clear statistical explanations.
“Bite-sized videos explaining how to approach medical research people. Last updated July 30 2020, so hopefully it reached many people during those confusing times and helped them strenghten their intellectual self defense.”
Chef Jacob Burton, “Culinary Boot Camp & F-STEP Curriculum” (h/t @sharksmile)
Intensive fundamentals course that applies across cuisines.
“F-STEP cooking curriculum is a classic to me… first and foremost it taught me the importance of salt and what type to use when, and i think about that every time i’m cooking. goes way beyond that in the series. solid foundational info that applies to all kinds of cooking.”
Andreas Kling, “Ladybird Browser Development Livestreams” (h/t @AJ Weeks)
Veteran browser/kernel engineer building Ladybird from scratch.
“Andreas livestreams himself working on the ambitious written-from-scratch Ladybird browser all while maintaining a friendly and welcoming attitude, not something that can be said for every programming streamer!”
Joseph Noel Walker & Andy Matuschak, “Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process” (h/t @Benjamin Schneider)
Deep-prep podcaster interviewed by an learning researcher.
“Joe Walker puts extensive effort into researching and studying before his podcast interviews in order to come up with good and not just surface level questions for his expert guests. He also focuses on retaining the information and gaining a deep understanding which helps with subsequent conversations around similar topics.”
Ryan Singer, “Design Workflow — Part 1 & 2” (h/t @Benjamin Schneider)
Co-founder and longtime head of design at 37signals.
“Live step by step walkthrough of breaking down and designing a feature for a web app through various stages of fidelity from basic structure to HTML.”
Steve Schoger, “Refactoring UI” (h/t @Benjamin Schneider)
UI designer and co-author of the Refactoring UI book.
“Live breakdowns of how real existing designs/pages/interfaces fail and working through improvements to make them clearer and more usable (and better looking) live and step by step.”
Chris Do, “Typography & Design” (h/t @Benjamin Schneider)
Founder of design-education platform The Futur.
“Experienced designer breaks down and critiques designs from his employees and course students, showing how certain changes affect the overall layout and how it could be improved, often mentioning the principles he applies throughout. Was really helpful in learning some things about visual balance, contrast, and so on.”
Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), “Coding with AI” (h/t @Benjamin Schneider)
Creator of Redis; productive systems hacker.
“Experienced programmer screen records brief videos of himself working on real problems with the help of LLMs.”
Brandon Sanderson, “Writing the Stormlight Archive Vol 2 — Rysn Interlude (13-part series)” (h/t @Isabelle Thibault)
Prolific fantasy author and veteran creative-writing instructor.
“The videos shows him writing a chapter in one of his most well known book in a few hours and shows his pre-writing notes.”
Brandon Sanderson, “Brandon Sanderson Write-a-Thon” (h/t @Isabelle Thibault)
Prolific fantasy author and veteran creative-writing instructor.
“There is also another session with a live audience where he comments his writing a bit more.”
Hikaru Nakamura, “GMHikaru YouTube Channel” (h/t @Vlad Md Golam)
Five-time U.S. Chess Champion and leading blitz specialist.
“Hikaru streams and comments games, and of course plays himself. For example, in a video ‘How to Crush a 500, Every Step Explained’ he plays different people from 500 to ~2700 Elo for an hour, explaining each move, which is fascinating to watch, and to understand how a mind of a grandmaster works.”
Dan Abramov, “JavaScript Coding Sessions” (h/t @Vlad Md Golam)
Creator of Redux and key React contributor.
“Dan dives deep into React’s core logic, which is already very interesting, at the same time the videos are pretty simple to watch and following Dan’s thoughts can be really exciting. Besides React, he has videos where he recreates Wordle, Snake, Minesweeper games, solves Advent of Code puzzles.”
Daniel Naroditsky, “Beginner-to-Master Speedrun” (h/t @Julian Hunt)
Grandmaster and top bullet player known for instructive commentary.
“Daniel streams himself playing chess while talking through every decision to a very deep level. He discusses why he makes certain moves and why certain moves feel better than others.”
Matt Colville, “Running the Game” (h/t @Noah Topper)
Veteran tabletop-RPG designer and educator.
“Matt’s videos are really informative and his primary goal is to show that DMing is a straightforward thing that anyone can do, not something reserved for certain members of the tabletop RPG hobby. I’ve tried to pick out a few of his videos that are especially hands-on, but he has lots more which are very useful.”
Alexander Arguelles, “Live Language-Learning Study Sessions” (h/t @Liface)
Polyglot famed for rigorous, inventive study techniques.
“He has various videos of him live-studying different languages which give learners direct insight into his methods.”
Manifold-Sphere Teams, “Manifund, Manifold & Manifest Docs (2023-2024)” (h/t @Saul Munn)
Fully open startup ecosystem sharing notes, budgets, and strategy docs.
“This isn’t a video, but it’s probably relevantly close. All Manifold-sphere things are public — all meeting notes, budgets/finances, strategy docs, etc. I think that someone could learn a lot of tacit knowledge based on how the Manifold-sphere teams work by skimming e.g. our meeting notes docs, which are fairly comprehensive/extensive.”
Financial Modeling World Cup, “Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 — Finals Highlights”
Annual Excel esports series. Yes, Microsoft Excel.
ants_are_everywhere, “Live Code-Reading Sessions”
Channel run by a former Google engineer who methodically “reads” large open-source projects—Linux kernel, Blender, Git—while narrating each investigative step.
Sahil Lavingia, “Public Board Meetings & Founder Logs”
Founder-CEO of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur; shares raw board-meeting recordings and work sessions covering product roadmaps and revenue metrics.
Provides a transparent example of lean, remote startup management and “build-in-public” decision-making
Joseph Noel Walker, “Interview Research: Episode 160 — Richard Butler” [paywalled]
Independent podcaster known for extensive preparation; this episode pairs the finished interview with a publicly released packet of his notes and source documents.
Adam Doupé, “pwnable.kr Walk-throughs”
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University and Director of ASU’s Center for Cybersecurity & Trusted Foundations; leads their internationally ranked CTF team.
A 17-video series that solves each level of the pwnable.kr binary-exploitation wargame, narrated step-by-step from vulnerability discovery to exploit.
Paul Buchheit & Sam Altman, “Pitch Practice” (Startup School SV 2016)
Buchheit created Gmail and later became a Y Combinator partner; Altman is co-founder / CEO of OpenAI and was YC’s president at the time of recording.
Two founders present, receive Buchheit’s critique, then hear Altman repitch—an inside look at how veteran investors probe and reframe early-stage ideas.
GitLab Inc., “GitLab Unfiltered” YouTube channel
The all-remote DevOps company that went public on Nasdaq in 2021 at an $11 billion valuation shares >12k raw meeting, architecture-review, and demo videos under its “default-open” policy.
MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), “Breaking Down a $100M Show — Beast Games, Episode 1”
World’s most-subscribed individual YouTuber (300M+ subscribers), known for large-scale philanthropy and record-setting view counts.
Reviews budget, crew logistics, and set-design choices for a $100 million reality series, illustrating cost control and high-volume production planning.
Soren Bjornstad, “Effective Flashcard Writing: Decomposing Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Software engineer at RemNote and author of Grok TiddlyWiki; publishes a public Zettelkasten (Mosaic Muse).
Live records the step-by-step process of turning narrative psychology prose into well-scoped spaced-repetition prompts.
Taran Van Hemert, “Fixing YOUR Videos!”
Former senior editor at Linus Tech Tips; his Premiere Pro workflow tutorials have 4M+ views.
Diagnoses viewer submissions, demonstrating colour-correction, pacing tweaks, and audio-mix fixes while narrating each decision.
Gennady Korotkevich (“tourist”), “touristream 012: Codeforces Round 672 (Div. 2)”
Six-time IOI gold medalist and two-time ICPC world champion; first programmer to surpass a 4000 Codeforces rating.
Katie Dill & Aaron Epstein, “Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites”
Dill led design at Airbnb and Lyft before heading Stripe Design; Epstein is a YC Group Partner and co-founder of Creative Market (acquired by Autodesk).
Applies conversion-focused heuristics to early-stage landing pages, highlighting hierarchy, trust signals, and copy clarity.
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown), “How I Animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim Demo with Ben Sparks”
Creator of the 7M-subscriber mathematics channel and original author of the open-source Manim animation engine; taught MIT’s Intro to Computational Thinking.
Demonstrates project structure, scene scripting, and render iteration for producing visual maths explanations.
Paul Sellers, “Woodworking Masterclasses”
British master cabinet-maker (apprenticed 1965), author of Essential Woodworking Hand Tools; built furniture commissioned for the White House.
Multi-episode builds and technique demos focus on hand-tool joinery, sharpening, and shop layout for beginners with minimal equipment.
Gary Bernhardt, “Destroy All Software Screencasts Catalog” [paywalled]
Founder of Destroy All Software and author of the famed “Wat” lightning talk; delivers dense 10–15-minute screencasts on Unix, testing, and language design.
Jonathan Blow, “Braid, Anniversary Edition — Developer Commentary Podcast”
Indie-game designer of Braid and The Witness; featured in Indie Game: The Movie and currently developing the Jai programming language.
Discusses level design, art direction, and technical trade-offs while replaying the remastered game with fellow developers.
thanks for keeping this alive, parker!
Thank you for the encouragement and kind words!
Tacit Knowledge Videos added to the list from May–August, 2024. Enjoy!
Kenneth Folk, pranayama breathing.
“Kenneth Folk is an instructor of meditation who has received worldwide acknowledgement for his innovative approach to secular Buddhist meditation. After twenty years of training in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, including three years of intensive silent retreat in monasteries in Asia and the U.S., he began to spread his own findings, successfully stripping away religious dogma to render meditation accessible to modern practitioners” (Website).
Keith Johnstone, teaching improv.
Author of Impro.
“A pioneer of improvisational theatre, he was best known for inventing the Impro System, part of which are the Theatresports” (Wikipedia).
Gwern, “Internet Search Case Studies”
Gwern blogs at his well-known gwern.net.
Per his about, Gwern has also “worked for, published in, or consulted for: Wired, MIRI/SIAI, CFAR, GiveWell, the FBI, Cool Tools, Quantimodo, New Work Encyclopedia, Bitcoin Weekly, Mobify, Bellroy, Dominic Frisby, and private clients” (Website).
I’ve had a busy past few months (if a three-month meditation retreat counts as busy). There have been more videos submitted than videos added to the post in this batch. I will add these in the coming months.