Substacks recommended by Wyatt Barnett | The Zeitgeist Distilled

Recommended by Wyatt Barnett

After School by Casey Lewis

an examination of youth culture

If you read one thing about culture read this.

- Wyatt Barnett

The Strategy Stack

By Alex Pawlowski

Stay ahead of the curve with insights designed for Chief Strategy Officers, corporate development leads, and innovation professionals. The Strategy Stack delivers curated tech trends, enterprise use cases, and actionable frameworks.

Admired Leadership Field Notes

Daily leadership wisdom you can read in about a minute. Become a better leader in your business, your family, or any social circle. The #1 listed leadership newsletter on Substack.

Construction Physics

By Brian Potter

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Explores the nexus between technology, policy and economics as it applies to the way we build stuff and therefore the way we live.

- Wyatt Barnett

When The Going Gets Weird

By Mathew Ingram

Links that interest me -- and maybe you

Consistently very interesting and mind expanding.

- Wyatt Barnett

Why is this interesting?

By Noah & Colin

A daily newsletter for the intellectually omnivorous, from Noah Brier & Colin Nagy. Edited by Louis Cheslaw

One interesting thing every morning.

- Wyatt Barnett

Play Makes Us Human

By Peter Gray

Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living

This is my parenting guide.

- Wyatt Barnett

nonostantement

By Joele

Interesting, fascinating and weird stuff found all over the Internet by me, Joele Lucherini.

Joele shares lots of awesome things every week.

- Wyatt Barnett

deepculture

your favorite weekly smart digest

Deepculture is the other newsletter you should read on Tuesdays. Always something fun and interesting.

- Wyatt Barnett

Digital Native

By Rex Woodbury

Weekly writing about how AI impacts society and culture

Insightful analysis of the forces shaping business and culture. Don't miss the 10 charts explaining the world series.

- Wyatt Barnett

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

If you follow one how-to-use-AI substack this is the one.

- Wyatt Barnett

Wake Up To Politics

By Gabe Fleisher

Helping you wade through the world of politics, five days a week.

Simon Owens's Media Newsletter

A newsletter about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. This newsletter is free to subscribe to.

Don't Worry About the Vase

By Zvi Mowshowitz

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Probably the best thing on the 'net about AI today. Beyond that The Zvi is wise on many subjects.

- Wyatt Barnett

Wonder Tools

By Jeremy Caplan

Wonder Tools helps you discover the most useful sites and apps

Illustrates the amazing things people are building these days, and helps you find ways to build amazing things yourself.

- Wyatt Barnett

Box of Amazing

By Rahim

A weekly digest covering emerging technology, trends and extraordinary articles, hand-picked to broaden your mind and challenge your thinking.

Awesome Sunday treat every week!

- Wyatt Barnett

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Economics of how we can have a bountiful future with rational policies.

- Wyatt Barnett

The Deleted Scenes

By Addison Del Mastro

Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy

Addison opens up the world around you and asks a lot of great questions about how we configure our space.

- Wyatt Barnett

Ben's Bites

By ben's bites

I write a newsletter about startups and investing—for ai builders of all levels. I record mini-tutorials, write about tools I’m testing, share my insights and give you a peek behind the digital curtain from an exited founder turned investor.

Bruce Mehlman's Age of Disruption

This newsletter offers (1) quarterly analyses of trends in politics & policy, (2) six interesting charts from the week each Sunday morning & (3) invitations to live events with new authors & leaders.

Six Chart Sunday is a must read every week.

- Wyatt Barnett

Uncharted Territories

By Tomas Pueyo

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech; the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

Amazing explainers of the world around us.

- Wyatt Barnett

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

By Caitlin Dewey

A newsletter for curious, thoughtful readers who miss the “old” internet.

Aspiring Generalist

By Colin Wright

Human-curated links for the curious, for lifelong learners, for folks who are interested in everything. Topics include (but are not limited to) relationships, aging, science & technology, education, music, society, art, work, entrepreneurship, and AI.

Always interesting to the generalist in me.

- Wyatt Barnett

The Bismarck Cables

Realpolitik assessments of foreign affairs - brief, ruthless, action-oriented.