A non-exhaustive collection of people who's writing or creative works I admire. Some have inspired me to create [[My Notes]], others I've found since then. ## Randall Munroe [Randall Munroe](https://xkcd.com) - author/creator of XKCD ## James Stuber [James Stuber](http://jamesstuber.com/articles) - writer of good content around boring fundamentals and the philosophy & practice of productivity ## James Clear [James Clear](http://jamesstuber.com/articles) - author of Atomic Habits & his awesome newsletter ## MarkWK [MarkWK](http://markwk.com/) - a quantified self advocate, author of [[The Plain Text Life]] article which inspired this whole notes database ## Michael Rose [Michael Rose](https://mademistakes.com/notes/) - creator of the template I *(used to)* use for https://aarongilly.com & dude who's been blogging for longer than me ## Chet Corcos [Chet Corcos](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjthfnhx-brAhWLK80KHQOgDd0QFjABegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2FChet-Corcos-0e27612403084b2fb4a3166edafd623a&usg=AOvVaw1cd_CqNpdfIsSxOnX2DIWF) - a dude who built [[Notion]] who inspired my [Creation Catalog](https://aarongilly.com/Pages/Creations) ## Taylor Pearson [Taylor Pearson](https://taylorpearson.me) - author of the [[Antifragile Planning Method]] essay ## Johnny Nobel [Johnny Nobel](https://johnnydecimal.com/00-09-site-administration/01-about/01.01-colophon/) - creator of [[Johnny.Decimal]] & awesome communicator ## Jeff Zych [Jeff Zych](https://jlzych.com) - designer & UX/UI expert ## Simon Späti [Simon Späti](https://www.ssp.sh/brain/) - data engineer and technical writer who basically has a way better version of what you're reading here ## Derek Sivers [Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs) - somehow has been one step away, in the background, influencing some of my influences. [[Derek Sivers]] is also in [[Noted People]] ## Charles Wang [Charles Wang](https://charleszw.com) - a dude who [has notes](https://otherworld.czw.sh) exactly like mine and makes way cooler games than me. ## Sébastien Dubois [Sébastien Dubois](https://www.dsebastien.net/about/) - another [blogger](https://www.dsebastien.net/tag/blog/) who has [public notes](https://notes.dsebastien.net/50+Resources/55+Obsidian+Publish/README) just like mine, but also does obsidian plugin development work, and life tracking stuff. His kills and interests seem very similar to my skills and interests. ## Zsolt Viczián [Zsolt Viczián](https://www.zsolt.blog) - the dude behind [[Obsidian]]'s most popular plugin → [[Excalidraw]] (see also: [[Excalidraw in Obsidian]]) ## Ellane [Ellane](https://ellanew.com/about) - plain text enthusiast and designer, wise with [[obsidian]] and [[Todo.txt]] ## Steph Ango Aka "Kepano" [Steph Ango](https://stephango.com/about) - CEO of [[Obsidian]], wise dude whom I'm very grateful to for giving us this tool... also his writing is good. Too much awesomeness for one person. Probably a conspiracy.[^1] ## Simon Willison [Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net) - the creator of [[DogSheep]] and [[Datasette]], who also wrote about [[Single HTML File App|Single File Web Apps]], a big [[SQLite]] fan ## Frank Force [Frank Force](https://frankforce.com/2019-year-in-review-adventures-in-tiny-coding/) - a dude who makes interesting, tiny things out of code. [[Single HTML File App]]s and other stuff. **** # More ## Source - Self ## Related [^1]: sarcasm. If you don't know me. Or if you do, still sarcasm.