name,url,description
Gwern,https://gwern.substack.com,deep research on ai scaling genetics statistics technology and self-experimentation
Scott Alexander,https://www.astralcodexten.com,rationalist essays on science medicine philosophy politics and futurism
Zvi Mowshowitz,https://thezvi.substack.com,rigorous analysis of ai rationality decision-making and strategic thinking
Henrik Karlsson,https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz,beautiful essays on writing relationships agency and intellectual life
Erik Hoel,https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com,neuroscientist writing on consciousness culture science and literature
Joel David Hamkins,https://www.infinitelymore.xyz,notre dame mathematician and philosopher serializing books on infinity and logic
Robin Hanson,https://www.overcomingbias.com,economist exploring hidden motives signaling prediction markets and the future
Bryan Caplan,https://www.betonit.ai,economist writing on education immigration rationality and libertarian ideas
Henry Oliver,https://www.commonreader.co.uk,essays on great books from chaucer to modern fiction and late bloomers
Razib Khan,https://www.razibkhan.com,geneticist writing on human evolution history told through dna and culture
Anton Howes,https://www.ageofinvention.xyz,historian of innovation exploring causes of the industrial revolution
Brian Potter,https://www.construction-physics.com,deep dives into buildings infrastructure industrial technology and progress
Sarah Constantin,https://sarahconstantin.substack.com,math phd finding underrated opportunities in science technology and society
Freddie deBoer,https://freddiedeboer.substack.com,fierce independent essays on education culture ideology and writing
Adam Tooze,https://adamtooze.substack.com,columbia financial historian on economics geopolitics and global crises
Noah Smith,https://www.noahpinion.blog,economist with data-driven essays on economics technology and public policy
Byrne Hobart,https://diff.substack.com,dense daily analysis at the intersection of finance technology and history
Nate Silver,https://www.natesilver.net,statistician covering probability forecasting elections and decision-making
Rob Henderson,https://www.robkhenderson.com,psychologist exploring luxury beliefs social class and human nature
Cate Hall,https://usefulfictions.substack.com,ceo and former poker champion writing on agency mental models and truth
Dwarkesh Patel,https://www.dwarkesh.com,deeply researched interviews and essays on ai technology and civilization
Michael Huemer,https://fakenous.substack.com,philosophy professor on epistemology ethics politics and logical reasoning
Kieran Setiya,https://ksetiya.substack.com,mit philosopher exploring ethics epistemology and philosophy as life guide
Richard Chappell,https://www.goodthoughts.blog,moral philosopher writing on consequentialism ethics and parfit
Eric Schwitzgebel,https://eschwitz.substack.com,philosopher on consciousness ai ethics moral psychology and science fiction
Justin Smith-Ruiu,https://justinehsmith.substack.com,philosopher of science writing on leibniz russia modernity and memory
Joseph Heath,https://josephheath.substack.com,toronto political philosopher on critical theory rational choice and institutions
Arnold Kling,https://arnoldkling.substack.com,mit economist on the three languages of politics and institutional design
Branko Milanovic,https://branko2f7.substack.com,leading inequality economist on global income distribution and economic history
Brad DeLong,https://braddelong.substack.com,berkeley economist and historian on growth distribution and economic history
Nadia Asparouhova,https://nayafia.substack.com,independent researcher on open source culture tech influence and digital life
Vitalik Buterin,https://vitalik.substack.com,ethereum co-founder on crypto philosophy governance game theory and mechanism design
Ted Gioia,https://www.honest-broker.com,music historian and cultural critic on books music arts and media
Adam Mastroianni,https://www.experimental-history.com,psychologist running experiments and challenging scientific orthodoxy with humor
L.M. Sacasas,https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com,independent scholar of technology ethics drawing on ellul and illich
Venkatesh Rao,https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com,ribbonfarm writer on technology philosophy systems thinking and civilization
Matt Clancy,https://mattsclancy.substack.com,innovation economist synthesizing academic research on progress and discovery
Jason Crawford,https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org,progress studies founder on history of technology and philosophy of progress
Samo Burja,https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com,great founder theorist analyzing institutions civilizations and live players
Samuel Hammond,https://www.secondbest.ca,economist on innovation policy state capacity ai and institutional reform
N.S. Lyons,https://theupheaval.substack.com,geopolitical analyst on technology ideology china and the crisis of liberalism
Tanner Greer,https://scholarstage.substack.com,china strategist writing long reads on history politics and grand strategy
Sam Kriss,https://samkriss.substack.com,literary essayist with dense pieces on philosophy culture modernity and myth
Jared Henderson,https://jaredhenderson.substack.com,philosopher outside academia exploring great books and the life of the mind
Roger's Bacon,https://www.secretorum.life,pseudonymous writer on science history philosophy and unconventional ideas
Metacelsus,https://denovo.substack.com,synthetic biologist writing on new and interesting things in biology
David R. MacIver,https://drmaciver.substack.com,writer exploring philosophy mathematics skill acquisition and how life works
Nuño Sempere,https://forecasting.substack.com,forecasting researcher on prediction markets and quantitative reasoning
Jeffrey Ding,https://chinai.substack.com,political scientist translating chinese ai policy writings into english
Lillian Li,https://lillianli.substack.com,longform analysis of chinese tech companies business models and sectors
Richard Pettigrew,https://richardpettigrew.substack.com,philosopher of mathematics bayesian epistemology and rational choice theory
Hollis Robbins,https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com,humanities scholar on literature ai in education and the life of the academy
Alex Danco,https://danco.substack.com,shopify product director on tech culture gift economy and social capital
Garth Greenwell,https://garthgreenwell.substack.com,novelist and critic with close readings of literature film and literary craft
Asimov Press,https://www.asimov.press,digital magazine on progress in biology metascience and transformative technology
Works in Progress,https://www.worksinprogress.news,online magazine publishing new and underrated ideas to improve the world
Palladium Magazine,https://letter.palladiummag.com,governance futurism magazine exploring institutions technology and civilization
Asterisk Magazine,https://asteriskmag.substack.com,magazine for clear thinking from the rationalist and ea communities
Letters of Note,https://news.lettersofnote.com,curated collection of the most fascinating letters in history by shaun usher
Casey Muratori,https://www.computerenhance.com,performance-aware programming courses and deep systems-level technical analysis
John Nerst,https://everythingstudies.substack.com,erisologist studying disagreement abstraction and how people argue past each other
Ozy Brennan,https://thingofthings.substack.com,effective altruist on rationality ethics discourse norms and wild animal welfare
Kyla Scanlon,https://kyla.substack.com,economic commentator who coined vibecession blending data with storytelling
Sam Enright,https://samenright.substack.com,young polymath essayist covering philosophy economics history poetry and progress
Dominic Cummings,https://dominiccummings.substack.com,former uk political advisor on institutions science policy reform and strategy
Agnes Callard,https://agnescallard.substack.com,uchicago philosopher on aspiration ancient philosophy ethics and public thinking
Lyman Stone,https://lymanstone.substack.com,demographer analyzing fertility decline population trends and cultural economics
Noah Millman,https://gideons.substack.com,cultural critic and filmmaker on politics theater religion and cosmopolitanism
Resident Contrarian,https://residentcontrarian.substack.com,anonymous essayist with contrarian takes on culture class and everyday life
Sasha Chapin,https://sashachapin.substack.com,award-winning writer on the creative process chess and lived experience
Packy McCormick,https://www.notboring.co,optimistic deep dives into technology strategy startups and business
The Gradient,https://thegradientpub.substack.com,team of ai researchers publishing accessible essays on machine learning
Sam Rinko,https://samuelrinko.substack.com,autodidact building an intellectual life through serious self-directed reading
Tina He,https://fakepixels.substack.com,designer-philosopher exploring technology markets and the human mind
Alexey Guzey,https://guzey.substack.com,independent researcher on scientific progress institutional reform and agi
New Science,https://newscience.substack.com,building 21st century institutions of science with essays on how science works
Matthew Yglesias,https://www.slowboring.com,policy writer with daily rational moderate takes on politics and governance
Jesse Singal,https://jessesingal.substack.com,journalist covering social science controversies psychology and media criticism
Gergely Orosz,https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com,senior engineer on software engineering culture hiring and the tech industry
Michael Harris,https://siliconreckoner.substack.com,columbia number theorist on philosophy of math mechanization and ai
Jørgen Veisdal,https://www.privatdozent.co,essays on the history of mathematics featuring stories of genius and eccentricity
Tivadar Danka,https://thepalindrome.org,making mathematics beautiful and accessible through clear essays and stories
David Bentley Hart,https://davidbentleyhart.substack.com,theologian-philosopher on world literature religion philosophy and culture
David Bessis,https://davidbessis.substack.com,mathematician on intuition imagination and the hidden art of mathematical thinking
Grant Sanderson,https://3blue1brown.substack.com,updates from the creator of 3blue1brown on math exposition and visualization
Allen Downey,https://allendowney.substack.com,bayesian statistics data science and probability from the author of think python
George Saunders,https://georgesaunders.substack.com,guided page-by-page readings of classic short stories as a democratized mfa
Naomi Kanakia,https://www.woman-of-letters.com,essays on great books classic literature and the contemporary publishing world
John Pistelli,https://grandhotelabyss.substack.com,weekly readings on literature culture drama poetry film and politics as aesthetics
Brandon Taylor,https://blgtylr.substack.com,literary essays on craft aesthetics and contemporary culture from a novelist
Lincoln Michel,https://countercraft.substack.com,counterintuitive fiction craft essays publishing and literary sundries
Sam Kahn,https://samkahn.substack.com,intellectual journal of essays stories and reflections on letters and criticism
Devin Kelly,https://ordinaryplots.substack.com,weekly meditations on individual poems approaching verse through life
Pádraig Ó Tuama,https://poetryunbound.substack.com,poet and theologian exploring how poems connect to life and meaning
Hyun Woo Kim,https://300tangpoems.substack.com,weekly translations of tang dynasty chinese poems with scholarly commentary
Emily Wilson,https://emily613.substack.com,classicist and translator of homer on translation language and complexity
Philip Traylen,https://oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com,translations of cioran's untranslated notebooks alongside original aphorisms
Classical Wisdom,https://classicalwisdom.substack.com,philosophy history and literature unlocking wisdom from the ancient world
Micah Mattix,https://prufrock.substack.com,curated daily links to the best in books arts and ideas with commentary
Spencer Klavan,https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com,classicist on ancient wisdom hellenistic philosophy and the humanities
Ron Charles,https://roncharles.substack.com,weekly book criticism and essays on literary culture from a washington post critic
The Point Magazine,https://thepointmag.substack.com,dispatches from a magazine dedicated to strenuous cultural and literary criticism
Robert Cottrell,https://thebrowser.substack.com,five pieces of lasting-value reading chosen daily by veteran editors
Maya C. Popa,https://mayacpopa.substack.com,weekly poetry curation and essays on wonder from a publishers weekly editor
Tracy K. Smith,https://tracyksmithpoet.substack.com,pulitzer-winning former us poet laureate sharing poems and essays
Daniel Walden,https://danielwalden.substack.com,philologist and classicist on opera music the classics and adaptation
Gregory Sadler,https://gregorybsadler.substack.com,philosopher making complex philosophical texts accessible through lectures
Dan Meyer,https://danmeyer.substack.com,mathematical pedagogy and building better worlds for learning math
Desystemize,https://desystemize.substack.com,rationalist-adjacent essays exploring systems assumptions and ideas
Peter Wildeford,https://peterwildeford.substack.com,quantitative researcher on ai forecasting and effective altruism
Ross Barkan,https://rosselliotbarkan.com,original essays on politics society and culture from a novelist and journalist
Gretchen McCulloch,https://gretchenmcc.substack.com,internet linguist and author of because internet on how language evolves online
Kyle Chayka,https://kylechayka.substack.com,new yorker writer on how platforms and algorithms reshape culture and aesthetics
Beyond Euclid,https://beyondeuclid.substack.com,curated newsletter of the best mathematics and science content weekly