Admirable People

Admirable People

I've become aware of many people that have, in some way or another, been a great source of knowledge, perspective, critical thinking, expert opinions, and support. In an effort to share with others what I have gained from having been aware of these people, I will document those details here. As always, feel free to contact me if you think you have any suggestions on who I should be following. Generally, the people I admire and follow are intellectuals, critical thinkers, have knowledge and experience that IMHO should be shared.

Many, many more to come...

Spiritual Gurus

• Eckhart Tolle
  Eckhart Tolle, German-born resident of Canada, is a spiritual teacher best known as the author of:
  • The Power of Now
  • A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
  • Eckhart Tolle YouTube Channel
• Teal Swan
  Teal Swan is an American spiritual teacher, speaker, and author described as a spiritual catalyst, who shares her gift of emotional intelligence with those of us less fortunate. IMHO She is one of the most genuine, honest, relatable, and straightforward communicators of such subjects.
  • Shadows Before Dawn
  • Anatomy Of Loneliness
  • Teal Swan YouTube Channel
• Dalai Lama
  Dalai Lama is a title given by the Tibetan people for the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India.
  • Dalai Lama related Books
  • Dalai Lama YouTube Channel
• Deepak Chopra
  Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author, alternative-medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement.
  • Deepak Chopra's Daily Breath Podcast
  • Deepak Chopra Books
• Mooji
  Mooji is a Jamaican spiritual teacher based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (satsang) and retreats.
  • Mooji Books
  • Moojiji YouTube Channel

Technologists

• Bruce Schneier
  Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute.
  • @schneierblog on Twitter
• Edward Snowden
  Edward Snowden, a technologist and journalist, is a former Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor, is an American whistleblower who made public the various illegal mass surveillance operations of the US government in 2013.
  • @Snowden on Twitter
• Bill Binney
  William Edward Binney is a former intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency and whistleblower.
• Linus Torvalds
  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which is the kernel for Linux operating systems and other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS.
  • Linus Torvalds Github Page
  • The Linux Foundation
• Richard Stallman
  RMS is THE go-to free software advocate. He is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.
  • @GNUplusLINUX on Twitter

Critical Thinkers

• Chris Hedges
  Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.
• Jordan B. Peterson
  Canadian author, clinical psychologist, and scholar who is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He is also an author, produces YouTube videos and podcasts, and has outspoken views on gender identity and masculinity.
  • Jordan B Peterson YouTube Channel
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
  • @jordanbpeterson on Twitter
• Joe Rogan
  Joe is an American comedian and podcast host. He has also worked as a mixed martial arts color commentator, television host, and occasional actor. Rogan began a career in comedy in August 1988 in the Boston area.
  • @joerogan on Twitter
  • Joe Rogan YouTube Channel - Home of The Joe Rogan Experience Netcast
• Howard Bloom
  American author, radio show host, and intellectual
  • Howard Bloom YouTube Channel
  • The Lucifer Principle
  • Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
• Carl Sagan
  Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known as a science popularizer and communicator.
  • The Planetary Society
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
  Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
  • @neiltyson on Twitter

Groups / NGOs / Nonprofits

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.
  • @EFF on Twitter
• Free Software Foundation
  The FSF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software.
  • @fsf on Twitter
  • The Planetary Society
    The Planetary Society is an American internationally active, non-governmental, nonprofit foundation. It is involved in research, public outreach, and political advocacy for engineering projects related to astronomy, planetary science, and space exploration.