The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.
How a researcher uses generative AI to help him think better and get more done
Reflections on the impact of the '4-Hour Workweek' 15 years later
Why creativity is the new currency of success
You must escape the shallow joy of more
A note about power
What the science of stress tells us about peak performance
It’s never too late to control your own fate
AI is a lever that becomes a lens
How dream bankruptcy can help you move forward in life and work
The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.
Get in loser, we’re disrupting Oracle
Make your spreadsheets shape strategy
Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter
In the Studio with Painter Brian Rutenberg
While AI devours information-based roles, OpenAI, Alphabet, and Apple are investing in wisdom work—and you can, too
Is it progress—or just motion?
Reading the tea leaves and reacting to the hype
Why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world.
A dispatch from the wild, vicious world of consumer payments
Sameer Gardezi likes to tell stories and his most beloved project is his biggest yet—rewriting Hollywood altogether.
YouTuber Ali Abdaal shares how he makes the productivity videos that have netted him 1M subscribers
The two time bombs to watch
Here’s how I built it and what I learned about the future