This is a great list. Some of my all time favorite hackers in there such as Casey Muratori and Andreas Kling.
Something that I have realized as I have gotten more experienced, is that things take time. I tried to shortcut my learning through every trick in the book and while I did manage to get pretty good in the first few years of hacking, only after I was close to 10 years of programming did I start noticing patterns and have an instinctive understanding of what to avoid and what to do.
In other words taste formation is a function of building hard things over a period of a very long time. There is simply no way of short circuiting that.
This is a great list. Some of my all time favorite hackers in there such as Casey Muratori and Andreas Kling.
Something that I have realized as I have gotten more experienced, is that things take time. I tried to shortcut my learning through every trick in the book and while I did manage to get pretty good in the first few years of hacking, only after I was close to 10 years of programming did I start noticing patterns and have an instinctive understanding of what to avoid and what to do.
In other words taste formation is a function of building hard things over a period of a very long time. There is simply no way of short circuiting that.