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An online culinary school with structured certificate courses. Closest thing to professional training at home.
Specialist material for people already working in the field. 92 picks across all topics, newest first.
92 picks
An online culinary school with structured certificate courses. Closest thing to professional training at home.
In: Cooking
NYU's valuation professor shares courses, data, and spreadsheets free. The gold standard on valuation.
In: Personal Finance
A deep, data-heavy series on retirement withdrawal rates. For people planning decades ahead.
In: Personal Finance
A huge archive of great speeches with audio and transcripts. Study how the best build an argument.
In: Public Speaking
BYU's encyclopedia of rhetorical devices and figures. The classical toolkit, clearly organized.
In: Public Speaking
Intensive motion design courses for After Effects and Cinema 4D. Demanding and well regarded.
In: Video Editing
Real query letters critiqued bluntly by a literary agent. Read the archive before writing yours.
In: Writing
The editor's reference for style and usage. Worth subscribing if you write or edit professionally.
In: Writing
The A/B testing reference from Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn veterans. Essential for product analysts.
In: Data Science
If you want to design typefaces yourself, Glyphs' free tutorials are the clearest starting point.
In: Graphic Design
Accredited courses and degrees in guitar, theory, and production. The serious formal path.
In: Guitar
Essays on master photographers and their methods. Builds visual literacy beyond technique.
In: Photography
Contemporary photography from around the world. Keeps your sense of what's possible current.
In: Photography
Programs from senior operators on growth, retention, and strategy. Expensive, but dense.
The qualification framework enterprise teams use to forecast deals. Learn its vocabulary before joining one.
In: Sales
Alex Petrov on storage engines and distributed algorithms. A natural companion to CMU 15-445.
In: SQL & Databases
Scaling from ten to a thousand people: executives, boards, and M&A. For after product-market fit.
In: Startup Founding
Hernán and Robins' standard text on causal inference from observational data. Free to download.
In: Statistics
Long, carefully referenced surveys of attention, diffusion, and agents. Better than most review papers.
In: Deep Learning
JLPT N1–N2 grammar and vocabulary taught in Japanese. Demanding and very effective.
In: Japanese
Thousands of public-domain Japanese literary works, free. The ultimate advanced reading library.
In: Japanese
The Bayesian classic. Heavy going, but the most complete probabilistic treatment of ML.
In: Machine Learning
Real problems and public leaderboards. Read the winners' write-ups after every competition.
In: Machine Learning
Official test information and registration. HSK levels give clear long-term milestones.
In: Mandarin
Classical Chinese texts with translations and dictionary tools. For learners heading toward literature.
In: Mandarin
China's main video platform, with native content in every niche. Where listening meets real life.
In: Mandarin
Microsoft's methods and toolkit. Reframes accessibility as a source of better products.
In: Product Design
Large-scale e-commerce UX research. The free articles alone improve most checkout flows.
In: Product Design
How to build common interface components accessibly, pattern by pattern. For designers close to code.
In: UI/UX Design
A pattern library in book form: navigation, forms, data display. A reference you'll keep returning to.
In: UI/UX Design
Antti Laaksonen's concise handbook. The gateway into competitive programming.
Three hundred carefully ordered problems. Finishing the early sections is serious evidence of skill.
A trusted monolingual dictionary. French-only definitions accelerate real fluency.
In: French
Franco-German public broadcaster with superb documentaries, many free with French subtitles.
In: French
Catalogs subtle bugs experienced Go developers still write. Reading it prevents real outages.
In: Go (Golang)
The official proficiency certificate, with sample papers. A concrete goal for serious learners.
In: Spanish
Spain's public TV and radio, free online. Series and documentaries for immersion.
In: Spanish
The clearest method for product positioning. Most marketing problems are positioning problems first.
Blunt, data-driven writing on analytics and measuring what matters. Still very relevant.
The best books on Swift internals and SwiftUI's layout model. Worth it once you ship regularly.
In: iOS & Swift
Async Python confuses almost everyone. The official docs are the least-wrong place to learn it properly.
In: Python
Declarative macros demystified. Makes macro-heavy crates readable instead of magic.
In: Rust
Mara Bos on memory ordering, atomics, and building your own locks. Clear on a notoriously hard topic.
In: Rust
Frameworks for recurring-revenue sales teams, from the bowtie model to SPICED discovery.
In: Sales
The deep science of cooking, lavishly documented. The free articles alone are an education.
In: Cooking
Engine engineers explaining how JavaScript is really optimized. Changes how you think about performance.
In: JavaScript
Amazon's PR/FAQ and narrative memos explained by insiders. Useful templates for senior PMs.
The definitive guide to options and equity. Read it before issuing your first grant.
In: Startup Founding
Ilya Grigorik on TCP, TLS, HTTP/2, and WebSockets — the layer most web developers never learn.
In: Web Development
Project write-ups from one of the world's leading studios. Study how briefs become identity systems.
In: Graphic Design
MIT's full finance theory course with video lectures. Rigorous grounding in valuation and risk.
In: Personal Finance
Short videos on Python's sharp edges — mutable defaults, descriptors, performance traps. Dense and precise.
In: Python
Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari on regression done carefully. Practical, skeptical, and free to download.
In: Statistics
Professional colorist training and tutorials. The place to go deep on grading.
In: Video Editing
Clear, honest advice on publishing, agents, and author platforms. Essential before you query.
In: Writing
Causal inference for people who need answers, not correlations. Free online and very readable.
In: Data Science
A free cohort course on pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration. Where analysis meets infrastructure.
In: Data Science
Ear training, harmony, and song analysis from a producer and educator. Deep musicianship.
In: Guitar
The modern textbook: clear figures, current architectures, and free. Our pick over older references.
In: Deep Learning
MLOps done properly: testing, versioning, serving, and monitoring models in production.
In: Machine Learning
Figma's publication on building and scaling design systems, with case studies from large teams.
In: Product Design
Skiena's practical catalogue of problems and war stories. The book for applying algorithms at work.
Thoughtful French radio on ideas, history, and science. Demanding, rewarding listening.
In: French
Award-winning Latin American narrative journalism, with transcripts. Superb advanced listening.
In: Spanish
The official monolingual dictionary. Switching to Spanish-only definitions is a real milestone.
In: Spanish
Why each language feature exists, argued in public. Great for understanding design trade-offs.
In: iOS & Swift
Ben Thompson's analysis of tech strategy and business models. Sharpens how you think about markets.
The standard seed documents, with explanations. Understand them before you sign one.
In: Startup Founding
McElreath's Bayesian course changes how you think about models and causation. Lectures free.
In: Statistics
Patterns tested with millions of real users, with research notes. A masterclass in accessible design.
In: UI/UX Design
Work and essays from the legendary cooperative. Study how masters build stories in pictures.
In: Photography
The foundational textbook. Parts are dated, but its math chapters remain a reference.
In: Deep Learning
ISL's demanding older sibling. The reference for the mathematics of classical ML.
In: Machine Learning
A full university textbook, free. Exceptionally clear on recursion, dynamic programming, and graphs.
What's actually guaranteed when goroutines share data. Essential before writing lock-free code.
In: Go (Golang)
Short enough to read in an afternoon — rare for a language spec, and worth doing once.
In: Go (Golang)
Deep episodes on functional Swift and The Composable Architecture. Opinionated and rigorous.
In: iOS & Swift
The spec itself. Useless as a tutorial, invaluable when you need the definitive answer.
In: JavaScript
The dark arts of unsafe Rust. Read it before writing any unsafe block you intend to ship.
In: Rust
Accessibility is a legal and moral baseline. This is the filterable version of the actual standard.
In: Web Development
How CPython is built and changed. Read it to understand the language — or to contribute to it.
In: Python
Kleppmann's modern classic on replication, partitioning, and consistency. Changes how you design systems.
In: SQL & Databases
async/await, actors, and tasks. Required reading before enabling Swift 6's strict concurrency checks.
In: iOS & Swift
The natural next book after The Book: API design, unsafe code, and ecosystem conventions.
In: Rust
Core Web Vitals, loading strategy, and images, from the team that defines the metrics.
In: Web Development
Andy Pavlo on storage, indexing, and transactions inside a database. Lectures are free online.
In: SQL & Databases
Stanford's legendary vision course. The assignments make you implement everything yourself.
In: Deep Learning
The standard NLP course, now centered on transformers and LLMs. Lectures are free online.
In: Deep Learning
Essays on API design, error handling, and performance from a longtime Go contributor.
In: Go (Golang)
Long live-coding sessions on iterators, lifetimes, and async internals. Unmatched depth, zero fluff.
In: Rust
Design, rendering, and performance patterns for modern JavaScript apps, with clear diagrams.
In: JavaScript
Domain-driven design, repositories, and event-driven architecture in practical Python. Rare and valuable.
In: Python