Inspired by my recent Podcasts post, here are my current YouTube subscriptions:

Reducing Car Dependency

• Not Just Bikes: A Canadian living in Amsterdam teaching how cars ruin cities.
• Strong Towns: Strong Towns tends to take an economic approach in arguing for reducing car dependency in cities. Cars: they’re not just bad for the environment, our health, and traffic, they’re also bad for our cities’ finances.

Running/Cycling

• Atlanta Track Club: Mostly short promotional videos, but I’m an ATC member, so figured I’d subscribe.
• BikeBlogger: This guy videos his bike commute to work. A nice peaceful discussion of a topic with the background of a flywheel and commute commentary. “UP the hill, UP the hill”.
• Global Cycling Network: They put out a ton of content, most of it very good and interesting.
• Park Tool: Bicycle maintenance instructions, tips, and products.
• Phil Gaimon: Fun cycling videos from an ex-pro.
• The Mocko Show: Entertaining videos following the training of runner Chris Mocko. I haven’t seen a new video in a disappointingly long time though.

Food/Cooking

• Alex: Formerly titled “French Guy Cooking”, Alex takes obsessive deep dives into different cooking topics with a heavy dose of engineering.
• Pailin’s Kitchen: The best Thai cooking channel/website I’ve found. Videos for every recipe on Hot Thai Kitchen. It is a game changer when learning a new cuisine.
• Peaceful Cuisine: Calming videos of the host cooking. No words, just the sounds of food prep and soothing background music.

Woodworking/DIY

• April Wilkerson: Building things. All kinds of things.
• Ex Materia Woodworking: A friend of mine and a fine woodworker.
• Highland Woodworking: A local woodworking shop with a global reach.
• RenaissanceWW: Woodworking with hand tools.
• treebangham: The most wholesome woodworking videos you’ll ever see.

Miscellaneous/Interesting

• Joseph’s Machines: A modern Rube Goldberg, Joseph makes ridiculously creative and complicated contraptions.
• Mark Rober: An engineer using science for interesting projects.
• USA Curling: I like curling and wish I saw it more often than just the Winter Olympics.