Newsletters
Substack and Buttondown. 122 links, newest first. The newest are also a feed (RSS or JSON Feed).
2026
- The Death and Life of the Average Memecoin
- What is LinkedIn
- AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
- Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity
- How to deal with your kid leaving
- The biggest advance in AI since the LLM - Gary Marcus
- Cowork - How to AI
- The Ozempicization of Everything - by kyla scanlon
- How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS
- Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison’s Newsletter
- Nine Years, One Sunrise Composition: A New Year’s Day Photo Project
- The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
2025
- Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain?
- Making Sense of Bitcoin’s Changing Market Rythm
- The Great De-Leveraging: Friday Flash Crash - Tanay Ved
- The Movies That Defined Gen X - Mark McInerney
- The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
- The power of the Someday/Maybe list - by Robert Talbert
- On Classical Liberalism - by Cass Sunstein
- How The Internet Died - by Matthew Hughes - What We Lost
- Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money? - Paul Krugman
- why are we lying to young people about work? - by Maalvika
- The AI-Native Software Engineer - by Addy Osmani - Elevate
- Engineered Addictions - Noiseproof
- MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
- The Bank of Starbucks - Of All Trades
- Watching TV With The Sound Off - Gordo Byrn
- Photos From the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Attachments helped email go global
- Unpacking Circle's IPO Filing and USDC’s On-Chain Footprint
- The average college student today - by Hilarius Bookbinder
- Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood
- Should managers still code? - by James Stanier
- The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
- Bybit Burglarized For a Billion
- It's Later Than You Think - Hollis Robbins
- How to grow old • Mike Monteiro
- Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
- Bitcoin’s 16th Birthday - by Matias Andrade
- Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
2024
- For Starters #39: Pros & Cons of 6 Innovation Practices
- The CVM Algorithm
- Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison by Julio Merino
- For Starters #33: Your First Pitch is This One Sentence
- Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem - by Adam Ard
- The Story of Ethereum Staking So Far
- Breaking Down Ethereum Blobs & EIP-4844
- Bitcoin's Halving Aftermath
- The Case Against Caffeine - Insight Axis
- Conducting the ETH Census - by Kyle Waters
- Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers
2023
- The Root of Over-Meeting Culture - Anne Helen Petersen
- Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
- Manifesto for posting online in 2023
- Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture
- Circle's Silver Lining: Unpacking USDC's Supply Drop in an Era of Rising Rates
- Hooked on a feeling - by Mo Perry - The Unfurling
- Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend
- cf #63: being mindful of vanity metrics
- A Claim in the Ether: Tracking the Soaring Demand for Ethereum Staking
- Coin Metrics’ State of the Network: Issue 205
- LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
- Coin Metrics’ State of the Network: Issue 204
- Negative & Planning by JP Castlin - Strategy in Praxis
- Honestly, it's probably the phones - by Noah Smith
- Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.
- Coin Metrics’ State of the Network: Issue 194
- I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
- Tag Systems
- Matt Yglesias and the secret of blogging - by Max Read
- My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
- The POAP Vending Machine - 0xone2three.eth Newsletter
- Gnosis Year In Review - by GC Validator Newsletter
- What's The Cost In Time - True Wealth by Gordo Byrn
- Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency
2022
- How do transistors work, anyway? - lcamtuf’s thing
- Your Calendar = Your Priorities
- The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
- Day 212. Lyptsi. - by Alona / cryptodrftng
- Coin Metrics' State of the Network: Special Merge Update
- Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum
- Optimal autonomous organizations
- Why aren't smart people happier? - by Adam Mastroianni
- Get Yourself Free by Mo Perry - The Unfurling
- The Bill Gurley Chronicles: Part I - Macro Ops Musings
- Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase And A15 Based IP
- What is NounsDAO!?
- The Crypto Wallet: Unlocking Digital Identity
- Day 74. Never Again.
- Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet
- I crowdfunded a novel using cryptocurrency
2021
- The Omicron situation - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
- New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 - by Katelyn Jetelina - Your Local Epidemiologist
- Is Crypto Bullshit? - Will Wilkinson, Model Citizen
- 11 rules for buying an ebike, and the 11 ebikes to buy now
- Essay: The digital death of collecting
- The SaaS Metrics That Matter - Bottom Up by David Sacks
- Your Money and Your Life by Edward Snowden - Continuing Ed
- The Internet's Original Sin by Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain
- The Algorithm Tweaks Won't Save Us by Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain
- Lifting the mask - Continuing Ed with Edward Snowden
- Status Anxiety as a Service - Noahpinion
- How to Perform a Social Media Autopsy - Galaxy Brain
- Writing tools I learned from The Economist - Built By Words
- How to Value an NFT (or any Collectible) - The Contrarian Mindset
- Imagine Your Flexible Office Work Future - Culture Study
- Here's why Substack's scam worked so well - The Hypothesis
- Understanding Coinbase - The Diff
- Commenting vs. making - chiefofstuff
- "Naming Things" is a Poor Name for Naming Things • Buttondown
- Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar - Thinking Through
- A Week With Plan 9 - Tales From The Dork Web
2020
- How to change an unwanted habit - The Examined Life
- How I Spend My Attention - my third brain
- "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women." - Culture Study
- As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter - David Hates Things
- Six lessons from six months at Shopify - Alex Danco's Newsletter
- s08e18: QAnon looks like an alternate reality game - Things That Have Caught My Attention
- 25. Passive income for the soul - 100%
- A Theory of Zoom Fatigue - The Convivial Society