60 newsletters joined the index in the last seven days. Best writing first; only newsletters that published in the last three months.
Astral Codex Ten publishes long-form essays on AI safety, rationality, politics, science and culture, alongside reader book reviews and weekly open threads. Readers get argumentative, carefully reasoned writing plus community news such as meetups, surveys and grant-related projects.
The Pragmatic Engineer is a newsletter by Gergely Orosz covering Big Tech and startup engineering from the inside, with deep dives into AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure, and industry events. Readers get practical, data-backed analysis useful for software, AI, and engineering leaders.
Interconnects AI is a technical newsletter from inside frontier AI labs, covering open-weight model developments, geopolitics of AI regulation, and the future direction of AI research and engineering. Readers get analysis of model releases, policy moves, and grounded takes on AI progress without hype.
A literary-intellectual magazine's newsletter featuring long-form essays, reviews and interviews on politics, technology, books and culture. Issues pair new pieces with curated archive selections and conversations with critics.
Stratechery is Ben Thompson's analytical newsletter on the business, strategy, and societal impact of technology, with a focus on Apple, Big Tech, and telecom. Subscribers get in-depth essays plus a weekly roundup of bundle content, podcasts, and related analysis.
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather analyzes current climate science questions, such as whether global warming is accelerating, the strength of the current El Niño, and the pace of the clean energy transition. Posts combine original charts, data and critiques of published papers with accessible explanation.
Timothy Garton Ash's newsletter offers personal and analytical reflections from a European 'historian of the present' on current events, history, and European politics. Readers get essays tying contemporary issues like Russian aggression toward Ukraine, French student protests, and tributes to figures like Adam Michnik to deeper historical context.
A weekly pick of one standout New Yorker story, plus occasional podcasts and essays on literature, politics, and culture. Readers get long-form criticism, reporting, and conversations without a paywall.
Grant Sanderson's mailing list for the 3Blue1Brown channel announces new math videos and occasional project updates. Recent issues reflect on AI's role in mathematics, the funding and value of math research, and the making of a video about a hard IMO problem.
Long-form posts on equity markets, interest rates, corporate earnings and valuation, backed by historical data and charts. Readers get a detailed, data-driven look at what is driving markets and how businesses should be valued.
Cheryl Strayed shares personal essays on grief, running, and writing, along with an occasional interview series in which authors answer questions about five things. Readers get intimate, candid first-person writing from the author of Wild and the Dear Sugar columns.
Veteran critic Robert Sietsema writes about New York City restaurants, focusing on inexpensive eats, neighborhood food walks, and dish histories. Readers get specific recommendations, dish descriptions, and cultural context drawn from decades of reporting.
Nicholas Decker, an economist, writes in-depth posts explaining recent economics research, such as whether pandemic-era air rage really rose and how many people work from home. He also shares clever findings from other fields, like geology and atmospheric science, in an accessible way.
In-depth analyses of technology companies and sub-industries, focused on AI, semiconductors, cloud, software and ad tech. Issues combine expert interviews, alternative data and earnings previews to argue where value is shifting in the AI stack.
A public health newsletter that translates epidemiology and health research into practical guidance on topics like respiratory viruses, vaccines, outbreaks and healthy aging. Issues combine weekly situation updates with deeper explainers, often featuring expert guests.
Chartbook is Adam Tooze's newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history, offering longer and more freewheeling analysis than his journalism. Recent issues feature curated top links alongside essays on topics like US current account and AI investment, Treasury markets, Indonesia's economic crisis, and historical episodes.
Volts publishes interviews and analysis on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization, with a focus on the US energy system. Readers get in-depth conversations with practitioners and executives about topics like distributed energy, grid policy, and clean energy siting.
First Floor is a weekly-ish newsletter covering electronic music and the culture and industry around it, including artist recommendations and features on dance music scenes. It also includes essays on the business of independent music writing and media.
Sinocism delivers a near-daily briefing on Chinese politics, economy, trade, technology and foreign policy, with curated items from official and Chinese-language sources plus commentary. It also includes a companion podcast (Sharp China) discussing export controls, GDP data and Party meetings.
Weekly analyses of China's AI, chip, robotics and EV sectors, built from primary sources such as filings, industry-body data and government announcements. Issues pair specific figures with an interpretive reading, for example on robot supply-chain financing, BYD battery share and draft AI export controls.
Noah Smith's blog covers economics, AI, politics, and culture, including essays on film, AI progress, and political critique. Readers get long-form analysis mixing policy commentary with personal reflections on current events.
A history-focused newsletter that examines the stories, design decisions, and cultural contexts behind famous logos and corporate identities, from Japanese craft marks to railway branding. Readers get in-depth, researched case studies on how iconic visual identities were conceived and why they were designed as they were.
Latent.Space is a technical newsletter and podcast covering how leading AI labs build agents, models, inference infrastructure, and AI for science. Recent issues cover open-source inference economics, how AI-native engineering firms structure compensation, and programmable GPU data centers.
Data-driven explainers that put public policy numbers into context using charts and datasets, such as UK tax levers, pensions and the ages of world leaders. The author compiles her own data and shows how large each issue is relative to the whole.
Matt Alt's newsletter offers essays on Japanese pop culture, from manga's status as art to Haruki Murakami's Nobel hopes and the history of Japan's first man in space. Readers get well-researched cultural history and sharp commentary on how Japan's postwar and bubble-era trends shaped global pop culture.
Joshua Rozenberg KC (hon) reports and comments on UK legal developments, including the courts, legal regulation and constitutional issues, with occasional international stories. Paying subscribers also receive a podcast series interviewing figures in legal regulation.
Platformer is an independent newsletter covering AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology. Readers get analytical reporting and commentary on industry news such as regulatory actions against AI companies and leadership changes at major tech firms.
Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with LLMs and coding agents, event live blogs, and short notes on new releases and tools. Readers get practical write-ups of what he built, what he learned, and roundups of links, quotes and open source releases.
Slow Boring is a politics and public policy newsletter offering pragmatic, data-informed commentary on current affairs. Recent issues cover housing policy on the ballot, mortgage affordability, and critiques of deception in culture and tech.
A weekly newsletter from a product manager covering AI product management, growth strategy, and job-hunting for PM roles, with companion podcast episodes and written deep dives. Readers get practical guides on Claude Code-based growth systems, model PM careers, and product strategy in the age of AI.
Billboard's newsletter covers the latest music chart results, including Billboard 200 and Hot 100 rankings, plus industry news such as RIAA policy efforts on AI deepfakes and copyright. Readers get weekly chart highlights and analysis of major artists and labels.
A cricket newsletter from Gideon Haigh, Peter Lalor and Sam Perry offering close analysis of Test matches, here focused on South Africa versus Australia, plus podcast episodes and wider cricket miscellany. Readers get detailed match reporting, tactical commentary and reflections on the game's history.
Persuasion is a community newsletter covering politics, culture, and the defense of free societies, including first-person war reporting from Ukraine, conversations with public intellectuals, and investigative pieces. Readers get analysis of current events, perspectives on reading and AI's cultural effects, and firsthand accounts from frontline-adjacent civilians.
Big Technology is an independent newsletter by journalist Alex Kantrowitz covering big tech and its effects on society, largely through interviews with tech executives and analysts. Recent issues cover Google's frontier AI push, robotics progress at Rivian's Mind Robotics, and the scale of the AI infrastructure buildout.
Transformer covers AI policy and politics, including legislation in Congress, lobbying by AI companies, and the super PACs funding the midterms. Readers get original reporting, interviews and analysis, plus a weekly briefing on what matters in AI.
Ethan Mollick's newsletter explores how AI is changing work, education, and everyday life, drawing on his research and hands-on experiments with agentic AI tools. Readers get practical examples of rapidly advancing AI capabilities, along with reflections on management, delegation, and the pace of progress.
Noema is an online magazine publishing long-form essays on politics, history, science, and society, with issues covering topics like Sudan's conflicts, short-termism in democracies, and coastal erosion. Readers get in-depth, thoughtful analysis and reportage from a variety of contributors.
ByteByteGo explains complex software and system design concepts in simple terms through short articles and illustrated refreshers. Readers get clear breakdowns of how companies like Shopify, Uber, and others build large-scale systems, plus practical engineering topics such as RAG chunking and testing.
A Tiny Apartment is a reader-supported weekly newsletter blending home design, personal style, list-making, and second-hand finds with a curated, collector's eye. Readers get fall styling lists, micro wardrobe ideas, and a checklist of autumn inspiration drawn from the author's everyday life.
Economist Bryan Caplan's newsletter offers sharp, opinionated essays on social science, power, immigration, and public intellectuals, often built around experiments and debates. Readers get original arguments with a clear point of view, plus guest replies and analysis of how commentators express contempt and sentiment.
Sinification presents Chinese-language perspectives on trade, economics and foreign policy, using translated excerpts, expert commentary and live conversations. Readers get analysis of how Chinese scholars and commentators view issues such as EU-China trade tensions, global imbalances and China's relations with Brazil.
Chris Arnade writes essays and photo dispatches from long walks, mostly through America and abroad, mixing reportage with reflection on books and ideas. Recent issues cover de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the history of the integrated circuit, and updates on his health and travel plans.
A daily history newsletter that retells dramatic events that happened on the same calendar date, with narrative detail drawn from primary and historical sources. Readers get vivid, well-researched accounts of moments like plane crashes, battlefield surrenders, and Cold War crises.
A fan-run newsletter covering Bob Dylan's concerts, with detailed opening-night and tour reviews of the 2026 'Lights of Autumn' dates and guest contributions. It also offers a paid archive of show reviews and a zine about Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder tour.
Evil Speakers is a music newsletter by Steven Hyden covering albums, artist catalogs, and reader-question columns about rock and Americana. Readers get album reviews, deep dives into artists like John Prine and Car Seat Headrest, and recommendations for music discovery.
Data-driven crypto research covering onchain perpetuals, DeFi yield protocols, tokenized assets and weekly market digests. Issues present quarterly metrics, specific figures and takeaways to support investment and market decisions.
Works in Progress is a magazine-style newsletter publishing long-form essays on new and underrated ideas for improving the world. Recent issues cover topics ranging from food and agriculture in Brazil to materials science and the economics of Chinese city governance.
Kent Beck writes about software design, testing and programming technique, framing them as ways of improving human relationships among developers. Issues mix practical techniques such as refactoring tests with reflections on working with AI coding tools and mental models for feedback loops.
A weekly newsletter from the author of Steal Like an Artist, mixing curated lists of links and quotations with typewriter interviews of artists and writers conducted by mail. Readers get creative inspiration, book and art recommendations, and a personal view of a working creative life.
A weekly data-driven look at crypto markets and on-chain activity from Coin Metrics researchers, using quantitative methods such as regression and survival analysis. Recent issues cover stablecoin supply drivers, Fed rate expectations and DeFi lending rates, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade, and memecoin lifecycles.
Zach Lowe's newsletter covers the NBA in depth, with a multi-part League Pass Rankings series ahead of the 2026-27 season and a planned return to weekly issues. Readers get vivid, opinionated team breakdowns that blend tactical analysis with playful, stylized prose.
Tomas Pueyo's newsletter explores big-picture questions about the future, covering AI, crypto, history, and society through long-form analysis. Readers get in-depth essays that connect historical patterns to present-day technology and economic shifts.
A German-language newsletter from netzpolitik.org covering digital rights, surveillance, and internet regulation. Recent issues address AI-based video surveillance in Berlin, coalition plans on police and digital policy, and EU proposals for age verification online.
A weekly newsletter covering electronic and experimental music through in-depth artist features, concert reviews, and album lists. Readers get thoughtful coverage of contemporary synthesists, improvisers, and festival reports.
An ER physician combines clinical stories with deep-dives into medical and public health data and policy. Issues cover HHS and CDC politics, budget analysis, sourced reporting on agency personnel, and case-based infectious disease writing.
TheSequence is a publication covering machine learning, AI, and data science, with weekly-style editorial pieces, research deep dives such as recursive self-improvement and learned update rules, and AI industry analysis. Readers get concise explanations of AI research developments, business news, and robotics coverage.
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