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Recommended by Michael Spencer

Curated by Michael Spencer

The Weekly Dose of Risk

First principles thinking at the edge of risk and innovation. We unlock value at the intersection of risk, data and technology, while exploring how builders reimagine how the world measures, manages, and monetizes risk.

Strange Pilgrims

Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported

Synthetic Connection

The Substack about AI companions

Systems & Side-eyes

By Katie Barnes

A field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.

“Katie Barnes is a Fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO) specializing in supporting early-stage tech and SaaS startups, particularly those at the Seed to Series B stage with 5–35 full-time employees. As the founder of Rise & Optimize, a consulting practice, she focuses on streamlining operations, reducing internal chaos, and implementing clean systems using AI-driven solutions.”

— Michael Spencer

The Third Oikos

What the good life looks like when technology is reshaping the household

The Sovereign Frontier

By Arturo F. Munoz

Trade your fragile corporate paycheck here for a standalone 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 — the system that automates your income — so you may immediately reclaim your soul, your schedule, and your personal sovereignty.

Command Line with Camille

By Camille Stewart Gloster

> execute insight Where security meets society & digital power meets purpose. Camille Stewart Gloster breaks down what matters in emerging tech (AI) and cybersecurity—minimal jargon, maximum clarity. Insights to help you engage tech with purpose.

Badger Observer

By Jake Kocorowski

Badger Observer is an independent, authentic, subscription-based newsletter whose mission is to go out, report, and tell unique stories of Wisconsin football, volleyball and recruiting.

Design With Blessing

By Blessing Okpala

Human-centered stories and insights on UX, product design, and AI with empathy at the core.

By Sean Satterthwaite

Geoeconomics and the dollar.

By Andy imagines

Leading and Learning Conversations - Sarah Findlater

Thoughtful essays on schools, leadership, curriculum, teaching and the future of education, written by author, editor and school leader Sarah Findlater.

Human-AI Chemistry

AI is no longer a technology problem—it’s a relationship problem.

Momentum Works Intelligence

Bridging the gap between global capital and Asia's most consequential business models.

Common Sense Rebel

We are all "The Gears" ⚙️👷‍♀️🧑‍🔧—the productive force that makes the world run 🌎. It's time to build a new machine 🛠️🔥 and grind "The Rust" 🦠💰 into dust. 💥

Leading with AI

By Yann Kronberg

No theory. Just practical insights on AI, decision-making, and modern tech strategy for those who want to lead in the AI age.

Dividend School

Subscribe free and get Dividends Decoded in your welcome email. Learn to analyze dividend stocks with Buffett's framework. No stock tips, no jargon, just a repeatable method. 16 years investing, 13 teaching.

Investment advisor focused solely on disruptive innovation. Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/terms

AI Family Network

I help parents use AI to save time, cut through the clutter of family life, and understand the privacy you're giving up with these tools, so your kids can thrive. Mom and technologist by day, figuring it out alongside you by night.

Computers were a mistake

By Alberta Tech

But since we can't take them back, we have to try to understand them. Or whatever.

I Design. You Grow.

By Hristo Butchvarov

Design and growth tactics for LinkedIn and Substack, so your profile looks as good as your work. 16 years in design - 26,000+ LinkedIn followers

Alpha Talon Investment Research

By AT Investment Research

Alpha Talon Investment Research Limited is a Hong Kong based private family office deploying proprietary capital with a focus on biotech and catalyst-driven fundamental investing.

Independent equity research exploring emerging themes and the businesses behind them through company deep dives and valuation analysis.

By Tayyaba Akram

Learn how to turn bold ideas into content streams, grow your audience, build a profitable business, and live a life without compromises.

Badass Women in AI

Spotlighting the women quietly shaping how we build with AI — engineers, designers, founders, and the ones figuring it out as they go.

Turning AI into business results, with notes on agents, evaluation, and infrastructure by Kiriti Badam, co-founder and CTO at LevelUp Labs.

Systems Theorist. Human-AI boundary thinker. Writing on epistemic collapse, emotional recursion, and ontological ethics. Author of Truth Without Judgment.

The Afternoon Story

By The Conversation U.S.

One great story a day from a nonprofit organization that features experts sharing their knowledge and research. It's like having a smart friend you trust explain and analyze the news.

By Jordan Myska Allen

Daily contemplations on human experience, many times, to come into more love.

Uncompromising analysis of the forces transforming business, power, and society. All data, zero filter. Go paid for exclusive content from Scott Galloway and the Prof G crew — and skip the ads for good.

OtterList Insider

Join OtterList as we build a better way to shop. Get insider updates, share your ideas, or become an Early Supporter.

The AI Handbook

2+ issues a week. Learn AI prompts, systems and workflows better than 99% of people for work, business and life.

AI marketing intelligence for CMOs and senior marketers. Career insurance in the AI era.

Data Governance Field Library

By John Wernfeldt

Practical tools, templates, and resources for data governance practitioners and leaders

Currency of Power

By Marieke Flament

Money, Code, and the Struggle for Control in a Debased World

StonkChris Substack

Engineer. 10+ Years of Equity & Crypto Swing Trading Experience. Trading Analysis, Insight, Setups, Macro, & Market Commentary.

The Economist: Off the Charts

The Economist’s data and visual journalists share the tools, techniques and ideas behind their award-winning stories.

Popular by Design

By Alexander Kustov

On policies that work and earn public support

The Doctor Who Builds

A doctor who thinks and sees beyond routine invites you to build things that matter for you.

The newsletter you need to build a high-performing long-term investment portfolio. Learn professional techniques for portfolio management, public market investing, and investment research from a former fund manager.

Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX. Author of Be Yourself at Work and TEDx speaker. I help leaders build emotionally fluent, brave, high-performing cultures — and help humans find their mojo and joy at work.

Damnang Research

Welcome to my Substack. Here, I share in depth analysis of semiconductor technology, companies, and industry trends in a way that is still easy for non specialists to follow. I hope you gain many valuable insights along the way.

Meredith & The Media

By Meredith Klein

Meredith & The Media, a substack on the latest trends in media as well as exclusive interviews with leading journalists on what's driving coverage.

Parasztvakítás

Független agrárszakmai hírlevél szakemberektől, szakembereknek.

Transition Protocol

40+ years building global FX infrastructure. Group Director at Ibex Technology Group. Host of Power Shift: decoding the geopolitical finance and structural architecture reshaping global capital flows. Insight into how money really moves.

I find clean setups that show Volume Accumulation.

Words That Matter

By Ben Springwater

Writers, thinkers, and creators share the reading that matters most to them.

(margin*notes) ^squared

By Michael L. Bąk

De-colonising and de-privileging tech governance, rights and policymaking—from the margins in.

By Cherene de Bruyn

Pronounced as ‘brainchild’. A student of everything: reflections on learning, growth, and the academic life.

AI for the Rest of Us

Helping the 99% of non-developers build with AI. Host of the Talking AI Podcast.

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