My 40 Favorite Substacks of 2023

These are the publications and writers who made the biggest impression on me last year.

Fishing for substacks

I am currently subscribed to 427 Substacks. The obvious question: how on earth do you find the time to read all of those?!

And the answer is equally obvious. I don’t. I only read the ones whose headlines jump out or whose authors I’ve come to respect. I subscribe to so many for the same reason a fisherman casts his line over and over again. Most of the time we’ll come up with nothing, but every now and then we’ll catch something wonderful.

I’m happy to sample a publication and give it a chance. If it turns out after many months that it hasn’t jumped out at me then I might unsubscribe, but rarely do I take the time to clean house and cull newsletters which seem of little use.

So here are the ones which have grabbed my attention and admiration the most over the last year. Do check them out - I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I have. These are listed alphabetically, not in any ranked order.

And a disclaimer which I hope is also obvious: I most definitely do not agree with everything these writers publish.

Do you have any favorites I should check out? Please leave some links in the comments.

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