Links/Resources
You will (probably) never in your entire life attain significant insight just from reading something. Meditation is all that matters. That being said, you must learn how to practice effectively and in accordance with your skills, which is easier said than done for most people.
Mastering The Core Teachings of the Buddha
A work of art. Read it for free, or buy the huge book. For a modern Buddhist, this is one of the greatest resources one could ever have. It's not exactly intended to be introductory material for meditation at large, but if you ask me you'd probably be doing yourself a favor to get started with it ASAP - but in any case, it'd definitely work well for starting vipassanā at any level.
Heavily inspired by Mahasi Sayadaw-style noting, though it certainly doesn't preclude you from using other techniques in lieu of, or even alongside, noting, as you reference this book.
It's big, but isn't dense; Daniel tries to be as clear as possible here with all the qualifiers and so on that are necessary when he treads on controversial/loosely-defined subjects.
His vimeo, and integrateddaniel.info - his site.
dharmaoverground.org
The forum of Mr. Dr. Daniel Ingram M.D., The Arahant. Pragmatic (that's the word!) and open discussion of attainments and the path; the topics of discussion are all obviously MCTB-adjacent.
Here is a massive compilation of all of Daniel's posts.
Mahasi Sayadaw, Manual of Insight
Continuing on the topic of noting: it's like a more Buddhist, sutta-oriented, and monastic version of MCTB, but with none of the zaniness; I don't know if he's ever smiled.
Kenneth Folk
Daniel Ingram's long-time friend who's also a Mahasi-inspired teacher.
The Mind Illuminated
Anapanasati, breath meditation, is regarded as the main practice of Theravāda Buddhism and as such it's also the most famous meditation technique. But don't get it twisted, there are countless practices that will take you all the way to the end.
Has an associated subreddit.
/r/streamentry
A subreddit focused on the subject here at hand - liberation for the average layperson.
Frank Yang: Youtube - Website - Instagram
Documented his whole 7-year meditation journey from beginning to End in the form of something like mini art films.
Shinzen Young
A teacher in a league of his own. A few books/articles and clips of his talks on youtube: expandcontract and Shinzen Videos. One can appreciate his philological tidbits and the scientific (that's his word) precision in his explanations; he's on the vanguard of scientific research on enlightenment. The Buddhist corpus altogether is quite the mess, and somebody has to do the work of attempting to unifying it all (via a meta-framework) for the common researcher to grok it.
accesstoinsight.org
Modern translations of more than 1,000 important suttas from the Pali canon.
Lotus Underground/M.C. Owens
Mahayana (for the most part?) scholar/translator. Very welcoming sutra recitations with his commentaries. My favorite is probably the Vimalakirti Sutra.
Pannobhasa Bhikkhu (Politically Incorrect Dharma)
For people like myself with a bit of an edgy background coming into buddhism, this is a funny (but proper) synthesis of ideas. He's an ex-senior Burmese monk.
dharmaseed.org
Huge repository of dharma talks and retreat recordings.
dhammawheel.com
Thervāda Buddhist forum.
Alan Saakyan
Somebody who's trying to make the world a better place - there's his podcast Simulation, in which he has people directly from the dharma world and people from that para-spiritual/secular/green/yellow-type perspective. In any case there's a ton: coming on 800 podcasts with videos interspersed between.
buddhistinsightnetwork.org
discourse.suttacentral.net
buddhanet.net
Samsara (2011)
My favorite film? Top 3.