Video
Channels and videos worth watching end to end — mostly about the process of doing one thing extremely well.
I watch two kinds of video: something explaining how a thing works, and someone documented doing one thing extremely well.
Not the fast-cut, low-density kind. Everything below is worth watching start to finish.
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3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson
The reference answer for mathematical visualisation. His linear algebra series is where I first actually understood what an eigenvector is.
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Primitive Technology
John Plant
No narration, no music, building from nothing. The best engineering documentary there is, and it never calls itself one.
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Practical Engineering
Grady Hillhouse
Explains why infrastructure fails using desktop models. Every episode is a small "oh, that is how".
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Ben Eater
Ben Eater
Builds an 8-bit computer on breadboards, one wire at a time. You come out with a different respect for abstraction layers.
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Every Frame a Painting
Tony Zhou / Taylor Ramos
Long finished, but those two dozen episodes are the best course in film language I have seen.
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Technology Connections
Alec Watson
Twenty minutes on why a dishwasher works the way it does, and it is never twenty minutes too long.