Substacks recommended by Azeem Azhar

Recommended by Azeem Azhar

Sinocism

By Bill Bishop

Get smarter about China

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

Deep into the Forest

By Bharath Ramsundar

Deep Technology for a Better Future

Strange Loop Canon

By Rohit

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

The Most Interesting Reads

By Nicholas Thompson

A newsletter about the best things I've read recently: AI, running, narrative, and more.

Wonder Tools

By Jeremy Caplan

Wonder Tools helps you discover the most useful sites and apps

ChinaTalk

By Jordan Schneider

Deep coverage of technology, China, US policy, and war. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.

Rui’s Substack

By Rui Ma

This Substack is where I share what I’m seeing in Chinese tech, based on frequent trips, close reading, and long-running conversations rather than hot takes.

Positive Sum

By Abi Olvera's Newsletter

Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing.

AI Proem

By Grace Shao

The newsletter that explains AI and tech business strategy from both sides of the Pacific, with a focus on APAC.

a16z speedrun

Insights for founders creating the future.

A must-read for founders and everyone building for the future.

- Azeem Azhar

Uncharted Territories

By Tomas Pueyo

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech, longevity, fertility, the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

Tomas Pueyo is one of the best guides through the uncharted territories of our world.

- Azeem Azhar

Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

Rising Tide

By Helen Toner

Intermittent thoughts on navigating the transition to a world with extremely advanced AI systems

Sources

By Alex Heath

Exclusive reporting on the AI race.

AI Street

By Matt / AI Street

How Wall Street uses AI from trading floors to the C-suite.

ChinAI Newsletter

By Jeffrey Ding

Jeff Ding's weekly translations of writings from Chinese thinkers on China's AI landscape

Internal Tech Emails

Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records.🔍

Flow State

Every weekday, two hours of music that's perfect for working (no vocals).

Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Tech strategy, analysis, and philosophy, but not boring.

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring a utopian future through essay collections & print pamphlets. Join us to reimagine the world for our benefit.

Understanding the unseen

By Adam Kucharski

Making sense of a noisy, uncertain world with the author of 'The Rules of Contagion' and 'Proof'

Net Interest

By Marc Rubinstein

Financial sector insights from a former hedge fund manager with 25+ years experience analysing and investing in the industry.

Hardly Working Corp.

By John D.

Official internal communications from Hardly Working Corp. — maintained by John D., Employee Relations Officer, during business hours (loosely defined).

Thinking Freely with Nita Farahany

Somewhat frequent thoughts on how to think freely in the digital age

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

Personal stories and lessons from inside the rise and fall of the PC revolution

Department of Product

By Rich Holmes

Product-led analysis and AI Knowledge for people who work in tech. Join product managers, designers, engineers and VCs from Spotify, Netflix, Apple, Stripe and more.

Chipstrat

By Austin Lyons

Semiconductors, AI, and business strategy. Read by tech leaders and investors. Sits between SemiAnalysis and Stratechery.

Newcomer

Where technology and venture capital intersect: A deeply reported newsletter on the inner workings of the startup industry. Helmed by Eric Newcomer with writing from Madeline Renbarger, Tom Dotan & Jonathan Weber.

Eric and his team are my go-to source to understand what's happening in the Valley.

- Azeem Azhar

Fabricated Knowledge

By Doug O'Laughlin

Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Klement on Investing

By Joachim Klement

Thoughts on financial markets by a grumpy, middle-aged German. What more do you want?

Simon Willison’s Newsletter

AI, LLMs, web engineering, open source, data science, Datasette, SQLite, Python and more

Patterns in Humanity

By Inquisitive Bird

Analyses and thoughts about the human condition.

AI Newsletter

By NLP Newsletter

The AI Newsletter provides weekly summaries of the latest and top AI trends, papers, tools, news, and best practices. Home of Top AI Papers of the Week and AI Agents Weekly series.

Upstarts Media

By Alex Konrad

Startup news starts here. The Upstarts newsletter provides in-depth reporting and analysis on the startup ecosystem, from inception through IPO. Founded by veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad.

Interconnects AI

By Interconnects by Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors.

Marily’s AI Product Academy Newsletter

By Marily Nika

Practical AI for PMs: tools, workflows, and certifications from the #1 AI Newsletter for PMs by Dr. Marily Nika.

The Gradient

Articles, interviews, and news coverage about AI brought to you by a team of AI researchers and builders.

The Gradient team and community are superb at contextualising what matters in AI.

- Azeem Azhar

Core Memory

By Ashlee Vance

On the Most Interesting People, Objects and Ideas in Science and Technology

Ruxandra's Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

Drift Signal

By Nicolas Colin

In-depth analysis through the lens of Late-Cycle Investment Theory: how technological maturity reshapes markets, institutions, and capital allocation.

Artificial Intelligence Made Simple

By Devansh

Covering the important ideas in AI from all angles- technical, social, and economic. Read in over 200 countries. Useful to everyone who wants to learn AI. Critical to anyone trying to see what happens next. Sister Publication to Tech Made Simple.

The Leverage

By Evan Armstrong

Read the future first: Clear-eyed analysis of tech market shifts. Beauty, craft, and moderately funny jokes included at no extra charge.

AlgoMaster Newsletter

By Ashish Pratap Singh

Master Coding and System Design Interviews. Level up your Software Engineering career. Subscribe and get a FREE System Design Interview Handbook in your inbox.

Ramp Economics Lab

By Ara Kharazian

"The only good brand on Substack" - Feed Me /// Data you can't get anywhere else /// From Ramp's economist Ara Kharazian.

Andy Masley

Crossing the river by touching the stones

Technically

By Justin

Making practical sense of software and AI.

Bill Emmott's Global View

Analysis and commentary on world events, current affairs and ideas from a former editor-in-chief of The Economist with a special addiction to Japan and Italy

The Generalist

By Mario Gabriele

The people, companies, and technologies shaping the future.

By the Numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Hannah's research cuts through the noise.

- Azeem Azhar

Exponential View

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