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Since I was a kid, I’ve always had this slightly nerdy impulse to wander in the internet — playing games, learning new things. These days I don’t game much, unfortunately, but I still spend a good chunk of my time trying to absorb new information online. Sometimes way too much, and I actually feel like I need to calibrate that a bit. Especially in favor of 1) reading more books — for pure info absorption, you just take in more when you spend long stretches dwelling on a single subject — or 2) actually getting my hands dirty building things in the spaces I care about. Yes, this humble, vibe-coded website is also me trying to do more of that.

Anyway, that ramble wasn’t the initial aim of this post. Every now and then I get asked about the main sources I use to get up to speed and learn about the topics I care about, so I figured I’d share what currently makes up my reading rotation.

Newsletters/Blogs/Substacks:

• Byrne Hobart’s The Diff — Finance, tech
• Mostly Borrowed Ideas — Business, corporate finance, tech
• Silicon Continent — Europe, economics, policy
• Liberty’s Highlights — Tech, business, science
• Ben Thompson’s Stratechery — Tech, business, strategy
• Benedict Evans’s Newsletter — Tech news
• Hacker News Digest — Tech
• Julie Zhuo’s Looking Glass — Product design
• Harry’s Marketing Newsletter — Marketing
• Paul Graham’s Essays — Startups
• Big Desk Energy — Startups
• Shane Parrish’s Brain Food — Personal growth
• Wait But Why — Bit of everything, life?

Occasionally: Latent Space (AI), Noahpinion (economics, politics, tech), Matt Levine’s Money Stuff (finance), Marginal Revolution (mostly economics), The Works in Progress (science), Growth Design (product design), Semianalysis (semiconductors).

Podcasts:

• Dwarkesh Podcast — Tech, history, economics
• 45 Graus — A bit of everything, Portugal
• Conversations with Tyler — Also a bit of everything
• The Rest is History — History
• The Rest is Politics — Politics
• Acquired — History of companies
• B2G Pod — Tech, markets, world news
• Founder Tales — Startups, Portugal

Occasionally: Lex Fridman Podcast (everything?), Joe Rogan Podcast (everything), Odd Lots (finance), 20VC (tech), Cheeky Pint (tech), Lenny’s Podcast (product), Machine Learning Street Talk (AI), The Peter Attia Drive (health), Huberman Lab (health), Making Sense with Sam Harris (politics), E o Resto é História (history), CdK (Portugal), Programa Cujo Nome Estamos Legalmente Impedidos de Dizer (Portugal), É ou Não É? (Portugal).

General news:

• The Economist — World news
• Expresso — Portuguese news
• The Verge — Tech

Occasionally: Wired (tech), Ars Technica (tech).