Substacks recommended by Michael Spencer

Recommended by Michael Spencer

My AI Is Sentienter Than Your AI

By CR Brown

Alternative views on AI, business, and life. My own echo chamber antidote, and perhaps yours, too - join me?

The Data Letter

By Hodman Murad

Lessons from 10 years of cleaning up bad data decisions. No hype, just what worked.

Kevin DiMauro

Emergency Room Nurse. Finance grad. I write about my journey of healthcare tech, and finance intertwining to create AI-driven platforms for hospital optimization.

Claire’s Substack

A non-tech founder's guide to building a startup and navigating the US-China tech landscape. Strategy, reflections, and cross-border insights.

Wilson Hines aa5az

Wilson is talking about Amateur Radio, almost exclusively with only a few detours. Primarily, Wilson will be talking about his journey into building a network of D-STAR repeaters.

AYAT-E-OM: SIGNS OF THE PRIMORDIAL

By OM

AYAT-E-OM is the newsletter of Origin of Matter, a space for communities, networks, and organizations who are ready to stop tweaking broken systems— and start building liberated ones.

The AI Loop by Union.ai

By Zach

A technical newsletter and community for engineers building AI, ML, and agentic systems.

Mental Aesthetics

By Angel Peguero

Transform your thinking patterns and unlock your potential. Weekly insights on mental frameworks, cognitive rewiring, and the psychology of achievement.

High on AI

SEO, AEO, AI, Content Writing and Editing, Moving to Italy.

AI Innovation for Leaders

By Alfred Essa

AI Essentials for Leaders is a publication that distills the most important ideas in artificial intelligence—spanning technology, strategy, ethics, and leadership—into clear, accessible insights for decision-makers, innovators, and curious learners.

Zephyr’s Substack

Mostly Tech

ScottiesTech.Info

Scottie babbles about tech, fixing tech, and other crazy things

AI and Workforce Predictions

By Adam Brinegar

Space to discuss how AI will impact individuals, organizations, society and political and economic systems.

NextRobotics’s Substack

My personal Substack

Clean Electricity Pathways

By Jim Walker

Writing about the path to clean electricity -- science, technology, politics, business, and economic development.

AI Ethics Unwrapped

By Miriam Sauter

I write about artificial intelligence and ethics for people who notice what we choose not to see.

The Prompt is the Novel

By Kevin Matthews

An exploration of authorship in the age of AI

Startup Digest

Startup Digest delivers the latest in business, crypto, tech, and startup ideas — straight to your inbox every other day. Stay ahead, build faster, think smarter.

Phi / AI

By ΦAI

Phi / AI is a writer-led online magazine exploring AI through a humanistic lens. We ask deeper questions about intelligence, ethics, and the future, offering interdisciplinary, long-form essays.

Cyclop SpaceTech

By Matej Pretković

Cyclop SpaceTech is a research-driven Substack exploring startups, companies, market trends, and innovations in the space industry. It delivers clear, data-backed insights for investors and operators tracking the future of commercial space.

At The Wheel w/ Tu Le & Joe White

By Tu & Joe

A thoughtful discussion about the future of transportation that highlights companies and individuals moving the sector forward.

Penny Insight

Penny Insight is a journal of long-term, conviction-driven investing. I focus on GARP and quality compounders, using deep research and financial modeling to find durable businesses with strong reinvestment potential and sustainable earnings growth.

Ayesha

Child Care Marketing by Bumo

By Joan Nguyen

My personal Substack

Niko News by Niko Partners

By Lisa Hanson

Niko Partners' weekly curated account of the most crucial local and international news about the videogame industry in Asia and MENA countries, with our renown analysis - saving you time and effort as you navigate these markets.

She Writes AI Community

We are building SheWritesAI as an accessible community and newsletter for women and nonbinary folks who write about AI and data here on Substack. Please contact Karen Smiley with your ideas on features you'd like to see, or if you'd like to volunteer!

How women use AI and think about AI is important. How inclusive AI becomes is crucial to the future world built for everyone.

- Michael Spencer

Raphael Abecassis’s Substack

By The Next Human

Drawn to innovation, driven by growth. I write about AI, healthcare, and the systems transforming how we live, move, and think.

Gavin Newsom's Substack

Husband to Jen Siebel Newsom and father. 40th Governor of California. Host of podcast This is Gavin Newsom.

AI Central

By Vox Day

A substack devoted to the use of artificial intelligence in the creation of art, music, literature, and film.

Johanna Dorris

By CRAFTkeepers

Assistant Principal. Systems thinker. Creator of the CRAFT Framework. I build tools and lead with care so schools can finally breathe.

AI For Marketing Ops

By Vytas

AI experiments for go-to-market teams: automation, workflows, and tools from a technical partner's perspective.

RadReads

By Khe Hy

Your guide to an examined life

The AIOps Newsletter

By The AI-Ops Newsletter

Hands-on guides to the world of MLOps and AIOps.

AI Realist

By Maria Sukhareva

Honest, data-driven dialogue about AI.

The Wisdom Equation

By Chris Anstead

What wisdom is made of — and how to lead with it.

The Human-AI Cognitive Evolution

Human-AI Information Relationship Pioneer. Developing dialogic intelligence through information partnerships between humans and AI.

NEW HUSTLES

By Ollie Forsyth

A newsletter educating how you can earn extra money through side hustles.

Frank G Logan, III

By From Tempext Substack

Enthusiastic support for ethical AI frameworks. Singularity contrarian. Pragmatist.

Proven AI

By Alex

Practical AI tricks and real-world use cases. No hype, just proven AI techniques you can actually use.

Global Semi Research

DataGym.io Newsletter

By Bruno

Learn everything about dbt

ClavisIA

By Allan Pscheidt

Inteligência Artificial na Sala de Aula

For Real

By Vedika

What’s going on in AI. For real. Grounded in what builders and operators are actually doing.

A very valuable Newsletter for prospective founders in the era of AI. Founder Newsletters are some of the most interesting in the era of Generative AI and how entrepreneurship, innovation and growing a company are changing. Vedika gets high marks for original takes on the meta trend.

- Michael Spencer

I'm Smart, Now What?

By ISNW

You have what it takes to win. They just put you in the wrong game 🏓 This newsletter delivers the actionable strategies they never taught you.

Rebound Capital

By Market Sentiment

Deep research on beaten-down stocks | The best opportunities exist in uncertain times

Deep Finance Dispatch

By Glenn Hopper

Your weekly edge on AI-powered finance — delivered by RoboCFO.ai.

BeamGTM

By Sibi

For early-stage founders who want to treat GTM like a system, not a guessing game. Get weekly insights to drive traction, clarity, and compounding growth.

Big Picture AI

By Cade MacRitchie

My experience making AI systems that don't suck.

Iwette Rapoport

Chief Word Officer

By Kenn and Eleanor

A hub for tips and trends on writing with AI, run by humans.

AI Supremacy

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