Substacks recommended by Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Recommended by Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Pattern Breakers

By Mike Maples

What we can learn from the pattern-breaking ideas and founders who succeed at changing the future.

Statecraft

By Santi Ruiz

How policymakers get things done

A fascinating look into how the sausage gets made featuring interviews with insiders from the CIA, DARPA, and more. Strong recommend.

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a16z speedrun

A weekly dive into the cutting edge of tech, entertainment, and AI.

Techno-optimism, magic, entertainment, and games. Ryan and crew bring it all.

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Useful Fictions

By Cate Hall

all models are wrong, but some are useful

Parakeet’s Substack

Poetry, thoughts, & musings

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

By Aarthi & Sriram's Podcast

Long form conversations with people who have "made" it to the inside. Subscribe for a weekly episode from leading CEOs, athletes, entertainers and everyone from the weird to the wonderful. Hosted by Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan.

Aarthi and Sriram are exceptional interviewers and bring on exceptional guests to discuss the most important things happening in tech and culture. If there were a "Strong Recommendation" button, I'd hit it for them.

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This is the Top

By Douglas Boneparth

A closer look at millennials, their money, and everything else.

PALM REPORT by Poolsuite

By Palm Report

An uplifting cocktail of content exploring the good life, served weekly(ish)

Poolsuite has taste.

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The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress—a digest of posts from rootsofprogress.org

My favorite way to stay up to date with what's going on in Progress Studies, and a frequent inclusion in the Weekly Dose of Optimism!

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ByteByteGo Newsletter

By Alex Xu

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 1,000,000 friendly readers.

Covering topics and trends in large-scale system design

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The API Economy

By Peter Schroeder

Breaking down technology's next frontier.

Breaking down the API-first Economy one API at a time.

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Dirt Roads

By Luca Prosperi

We observe value flowing through complex systems

Understanding how financial value flows through complex systems. Deep writing on the systems underpinning fintech & DeFi.

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The Century of Biology

By Elliot Hershberg

Data, companies, and ideas from the frontier of biology.

A Stanford Genetics PhD highlighting the cutting advances in sciences for both scientific and non-scientific audiences.

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Squishy Computer

By Gordon Brander

Learning to build living software

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

The Curiosity Chronicle

By Sahil Bloom

Delivering curiosity-inducing content every single week.

Digestible & actionable insights on money, business & personal development.

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Pirate Wires

By Mike Solana

technology, politics, culture

Tumse Na Ho Paayega

By Utsav Mamoria

Long-form writing on how to think, feel and live better by a Millennial navigating mid-life. Philosophy, not productivity.

Net Interest

By Marc Rubinstein

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

Financial markets viewed through the lens of a 25yr hedge fund vet, delivered weekly.

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Digital Native

By Rex Woodbury

Weekly writing about how people and technology intersect

One of my favorite ways to keep up with the intersection of tech and culture.

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Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Smarter about most topics than just about any expert on that topic.

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The Split

By Turner Novak

Weekly podcast episodes with transcripts, plus the occasional longer post

Memes and insights. The whole banana.

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The Generalist

By Mario Gabriele

The people, companies, and technologies shaping the future.

The best deep dives on tech, web3, and VC in the game, with beautiful writing to boot.

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Fakepixels

By Tina He

Fakepixels is a newsletter that explores alternative perspectives of understanding frontier technology, markets, and our own minds.

Pathless by Paul Millerd

Unexpected takes on the modern world of work. Paul explores our obsession with work and the default path of success and tries to imagine new possibilities for how we can conceive of life, work & what matters.

next play

By ben

We help people find their next play by sending opportunities, hosting gatherings, and curating content.

My friends Ben and Jordan can help you figure out what's next.

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