An online culinary school with structured certificate courses. Closest thing to professional training at home.
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Specialist material for people already working in the field. 92 picks across all topics (75 free), newest first.
92 picks
NYU's valuation professor shares courses, data, and spreadsheets free. The gold standard on valuation.
A deep, data-heavy series on retirement withdrawal rates. For people planning decades ahead.
A huge archive of great speeches with audio and transcripts. Study how the best build an argument.
BYU's encyclopedia of rhetorical devices and figures. The classical toolkit, clearly organized.
Intensive motion design courses for After Effects and Cinema 4D. Demanding and well regarded.
Real query letters critiqued bluntly by a literary agent. Read the archive before writing yours.
The editor's reference for style and usage. Worth subscribing if you write or edit professionally.
The A/B testing reference from Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn veterans. Essential for product analysts.
If you want to design typefaces yourself, Glyphs' free tutorials are the clearest starting point.
Accredited courses and degrees in guitar, theory, and production. The serious formal path.
Essays on master photographers and their methods. Builds visual literacy beyond technique.
Contemporary photography from around the world. Keeps your sense of what's possible current.
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.
Alex Petrov on storage engines and distributed algorithms. A natural companion to CMU 15-445.
Scaling from ten to a thousand people: executives, boards, and M&A. For after product-market fit.
Hernán and Robins' standard text on causal inference from observational data. Free to download.
Long, carefully referenced surveys of attention, diffusion, and agents. Better than most review papers.
JLPT N1–N2 grammar and vocabulary taught in Japanese. Demanding and very effective.
Thousands of public-domain Japanese literary works, free. The ultimate advanced reading library.
The Bayesian classic. Heavy going, but the most complete probabilistic treatment of ML.
Real problems and public leaderboards. Read the winners' write-ups after every competition.
Official test information and registration. HSK levels give clear long-term milestones.
Classical Chinese texts with translations and dictionary tools. For learners heading toward literature.
China's main video platform, with native content in every niche. Where listening meets real life.
Microsoft's methods and toolkit. Reframes accessibility as a source of better products.
Large-scale e-commerce UX research. The free articles alone improve most checkout flows.
How to build common interface components accessibly, pattern by pattern. For designers close to code.
A pattern library in book form: navigation, forms, data display. A reference you'll keep returning to.
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.
Franco-German public broadcaster with superb documentaries, many free with French subtitles.
Catalogs subtle bugs experienced Go developers still write. Reading it prevents real outages.
The official proficiency certificate, with sample papers. A concrete goal for serious learners.
Spain's public TV and radio, free online. Series and documentaries for immersion.
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.
Async Python confuses almost everyone. The official docs are the least-wrong place to learn it properly.
Declarative macros demystified. Makes macro-heavy crates readable instead of magic.
Mara Bos on memory ordering, atomics, and building your own locks. Clear on a notoriously hard topic.
Frameworks for recurring-revenue sales teams, from the bowtie model to SPICED discovery.
The deep science of cooking, lavishly documented. The free articles alone are an education.
Engine engineers explaining how JavaScript is really optimized. Changes how you think about performance.
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.
Ilya Grigorik on TCP, TLS, HTTP/2, and WebSockets — the layer most web developers never learn.
Project write-ups from one of the world's leading studios. Study how briefs become identity systems.
MIT's full finance theory course with video lectures. Rigorous grounding in valuation and risk.
Short videos on Python's sharp edges — mutable defaults, descriptors, performance traps. Dense and precise.
Gelman, Hill, and Vehtari on regression done carefully. Practical, skeptical, and free to download.
Professional colorist training and tutorials. The place to go deep on grading.
Clear, honest advice on publishing, agents, and author platforms. Essential before you query.
Causal inference for people who need answers, not correlations. Free online and very readable.
A free cohort course on pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration. Where analysis meets infrastructure.
Ear training, harmony, and song analysis from a producer and educator. Deep musicianship.
The modern textbook: clear figures, current architectures, and free. Our pick over older references.
MLOps done properly: testing, versioning, serving, and monitoring models in production.
Figma's publication on building and scaling design systems, with case studies from large teams.
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.
Award-winning Latin American narrative journalism, with transcripts. Superb advanced listening.
The official monolingual dictionary. Switching to Spanish-only definitions is a real milestone.
Why each language feature exists, argued in public. Great for understanding design trade-offs.
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.
McElreath's Bayesian course changes how you think about models and causation. Lectures free.
Patterns tested with millions of real users, with research notes. A masterclass in accessible design.
Work and essays from the legendary cooperative. Study how masters build stories in pictures.
The foundational textbook. Parts are dated, but its math chapters remain a reference.
ISL's demanding older sibling. The reference for the mathematics of classical ML.
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.
Short enough to read in an afternoon — rare for a language spec, and worth doing once.
Deep episodes on functional Swift and The Composable Architecture. Opinionated and rigorous.
The spec itself. Useless as a tutorial, invaluable when you need the definitive answer.
The dark arts of unsafe Rust. Read it before writing any unsafe block you intend to ship.
Accessibility is a legal and moral baseline. This is the filterable version of the actual standard.
How CPython is built and changed. Read it to understand the language — or to contribute to it.
Kleppmann's modern classic on replication, partitioning, and consistency. Changes how you design systems.
async/await, actors, and tasks. Required reading before enabling Swift 6's strict concurrency checks.
The natural next book after The Book: API design, unsafe code, and ecosystem conventions.
Core Web Vitals, loading strategy, and images, from the team that defines the metrics.
Andy Pavlo on storage, indexing, and transactions inside a database. Lectures are free online.
Stanford's legendary vision course. The assignments make you implement everything yourself.
The standard NLP course, now centered on transformers and LLMs. Lectures are free online.
Essays on API design, error handling, and performance from a longtime Go contributor.
Long live-coding sessions on iterators, lifetimes, and async internals. Unmatched depth, zero fluff.
Design, rendering, and performance patterns for modern JavaScript apps, with clear diagrams.
Domain-driven design, repositories, and event-driven architecture in practical Python. Rare and valuable.