A collection of the best newsletters & articles I’ve encountered, so I can 1) easily remember them, and 2) easily share them. Also the living stream of articles
that I felt were worth sharing.
Newsletters 🔗︎
I subscribe to hundreds of newsletters that pour into my email inbox. This is a short list of the ones that have consistently caught & held my attention out of the sea of content:
- Bits About Money (and everything else from Patio11)
- Deep dives on nerdy topics, but makes them fascinating. I never thought I’d enjoy learning about wire transfers and fraud, but here we are!
- Experimental History
- Makes me think outside my technology/developer bubble.
- Does an amazing job writing titles & headings that hook you in with confusion and a need to find out what it means, like “On the importance of staring directly into the sun” - and then you find it out it actually makes sense.
- The Next, Justin Mares
- Health & wellness, as well as company building.
- The Long Game by Mehdi Yacoubi
- Health & wellness information, intermingled with startup content.
- Hard Startups
- Find out about interesting companies building things in the real world.
- Astral Codex Ten
- Makes me think outside my technology/developer bubble.
- The Profile
- Learn about interesting people!
- Simon Willison
- Consistently a source of really interesting articles & ideas to read about, from AI and beyond.
Top Reads 🔗︎
I’ll slowly flesh this out with some of my favorite reads across the interwebz, and why? they each made the list.
- Choose Boring Technology
why?: The more experience I gain as an engineer, the more appreciation I have for simple, proven technologies & approaches (e.g. Monolith unless there’s a clear benefit for serverless/microservices, etc.).
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Current Reads 🔗︎
This is the up to date stream of the articles I’ve been reading lately. It’s meant to quell my urge to send every article to the same few groupchats.