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Reading.

Newsletters and Substacks I read with some consistency. Sorted by category.

01Energy & Commodities

  • Doomberg

    Doomberg·Substack

    Energy and macro takes from a chicken with strong opinions and good charts.

  • Power Hungry

    Robert Bryce·Substack

    Long-running coverage of energy infrastructure, electricity, and the politics of power.

  • The World For Sale

    Javier Blas & Jack Farchy·Book

    Best book on the commodity-trading houses I have read. Reads like a thriller.

02Quant & Markets

  • Money Stuff

    Matt Levine·Newsletter

    If you read one finance newsletter, this one. Best legal-and-corporate-finance writing on the internet.

  • Bits About Money

    Patrick McKenzie·Blog

    Long, careful pieces on how money actually moves through the financial system.

  • Net Interest

    Marc Rubinstein·Substack

    Banking and financial-services analysis without the noise.

  • Moontower

    Kris Abdelmessih·Substack

    Options, volatility, and trading-floor instinct. Excellent on risk.

03Agentic Coding

  • Simon Willison's Weblog

    Simon Willison·Blog

    The most consistent voice on LLMs and agents. Writes daily, links generously, ships code.

  • Anthropic Engineering

    Anthropic·Blog

    Source of truth on Claude, MCP, and the agent patterns Anthropic actually ships.

  • Latent Space

    Swyx & Alessio·Substack & Podcast

    Newsletter and podcast that interview the people building agentic systems in production.

  • Eugene Yan

    Eugene Yan·Blog

    ML and agents in production, with strong opinions on what actually works versus what demos well.

  • Hamel Husain

    Hamel Husain·Blog

    Evals, fine-tuning, and the unglamorous parts of shipping LLM systems.

04Systems & Infra

  • danluu.com

    Dan Luu·Blog

    Long, evidence-heavy posts on hardware, software, and how things break in production.

  • Marc Brooker

    Marc Brooker·Blog

    AWS principal engineer. Writes the calmest takes on distributed systems on the internet.

  • Brendan Gregg

    Brendan Gregg·Blog

    Performance, profiling, and flame graphs. Required reading if you ever care about latency.

  • Irrational Exuberance

    Will Larson·Blog

    Engineering management and staff-engineer craft, written by someone who has done it at scale.

05ML & Research

  • Lil'Log

    Lilian Weng·Blog

    Tutorial-quality deep-dives on ML topics that other surveys handwave through.

  • The Illustrated Transformer

    Jay Alammar·Blog

    Visual explanations of transformers and attention. Still the clearest, years later.

  • Ahead of AI

    Sebastian Raschka·Substack

    Weekly notes on what actually moved in ML this week, with code where it counts.

06Craft & Other

  • Patrick Collison

    Patrick Collison·Blog

    If I am out of ideas, I copy from his shelf. Especially the books and questions pages.

  • Ben Kuhn

    Ben Kuhn·Blog

    Engineering management and unusually clear writing on decision-making under uncertainty.

  • Paul Graham essays

    Paul Graham·Essays

    The startup essays are mixed; the older ones on writing and curiosity hold up.