“If you are building your own audience or content engine on the side, Tayyaba shares the real experiments and honest failures behind growing on Substack. Most useful for the leader who is also building in public, not just reading about it.”

“Your best defense against AI snake oil. The team behind that book cuts hype with evidence, so the next time someone pitches you a magic AI fix you will know what holds up and what is theater. Read it before your next vendor meeting.”

“Zohre looks at AI through the workflow, not the tool: which steps change, and which should disappear. Clear and practical.”

“One practical idea a week to win back your time. If you are leading through the AI noise and everything else competing for your attention, Tobias keeps it short and usable, which is the only productivity advice that survives a real week.”

“You do not need to write code, but you do need to understand the people who do. The clearest window into how your engineering team really thinks and works, and it will make you a sharper partner to them.”

“For the professional quietly building something of their own. Grounded, doable moves for turning your expertise into income and a network on your own terms, no quit-your-job theatrics.”

“Katie writes for the manager turning a group into a real team. Practical, warm, and honest about how teams actually work.”

“If you work anywhere near product, the sharpest source on how the best companies actually build and grow. Concrete playbooks you can borrow, whether or not the word product is in your title.”

“Elvis distills the latest AI research into a weekly digest. More technical than my read, but it is how you see what is genuinely advancing in the models months before it becomes a headline or a product pitch.”

“When a headline or a vendor hits you with a new AI term, Alberto has usually already explained it without the jargon. He takes the technology seriously without the breathlessness, which is exactly what you need to tell what is real from what is noise.”

“Abraham Thomas writes clearly about how data and software keep reshaping markets and whole industries. If you want to understand the forces moving your business, not just the AI headlines, this widens the lens without losing you in the weeds.”

“When you need the big-picture map of where AI is genuinely heading, not this week's noise, this is it. The macro view that lets you speak with credibility when the strategy question lands on you.”

“Most AI pilots die on the way from a slick demo to something people actually use. This is an honest look at why, and what it takes to ship. If you own an AI initiative, it will spare you the failure modes nobody warns you about.”

“The clearest read on AI research and the policy arriving with it. If you want to see the rules and risks heading for your organization before they land, this is the signal to follow.”

“If your work touches money, payments, or fintech, Linas keeps you current on where technology and finance keep colliding. A clear, fast read on the corner of the economy that tends to move first when something new lands.”

“Fair warning: this is the deep end, not a quick read. But when you want to go further than my four-minute version and really understand what just happened in AI, Zvi has read everything and shows his work. Keep it for the weeks you have the time to go deep.”

“If you are growing your own newsletter or audience alongside the day job, this is a practical playbook for doing it without burning out. The community and growth-network side of Substack, from someone doing it at scale.”

“Another deep end, this one for the builders. Latent.Space is where the people actually shipping AI systems talk shop. You will not follow every detail, but dipping in tells you how the engineers behind the tools really think, which is its own kind of edge.”

“The first place I send anyone who wants to actually use AI, not just talk about it. Mollick runs the experiments and shows you what works in plain English. No code required, no hype, just moves you can try in your own work this week.”