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Since I was a kid, I’ve always had the nerdy habit of wandering and getting lost on the web. Back then mostly because of games, but also a lot of trying to feed my own curiosity with a lot of random things. Today I don’t game much anymore, but I still spend a good, sometimes too much, chunk of my time trying to learn from the most diverse pockets of the internet. I say too much because lately I’ve actually been trying to cut down a bit on the time I spend reading on my computer. Partly in favor of reading more books — hard to compare with how much one absorbs from sitting with the same subject for longer. And also in favor of building more things — reading about something will never substitute for tinkering with the actual subject.

Anyway, all this ramble to say that, here and there, I get asked which sources I use to learn and get up to speed on the subjects I care about most, so I figured I’d share what currently makes up my online 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
• 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), Governo Sombra (Portugal), É ou Não É? (Portugal).

General news:

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

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