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Careful, technical write-ups of new LLM research and training methods.

Deep, patient explanations of how neural networks actually work, from one of the field's best teachers.

Claude releases, interpretability research and safety writing.

Production ML and LLM systems, from someone who has shipped them.

Go-to-market automation with LLMs, aimed at revenue teams.

Long-form guides on building a business with AI, written for creators and solo founders.

Video and podcast editing workflows, increasingly AI-assisted.

Essays on business and AI with a strong editorial voice and real reporting.

Research announcements from one of the largest AI labs.

AI avatars and video generation, with production workflows.

Practical open-source AI: models, fine-tuning and tooling.

RLHF, open models and where the frontier labs are actually going.

Applying generative AI to marketing work at company scale.

Agent architecture and framework patterns, updated as the field moves.

The AI engineer's beat: tooling, agents and long interviews with builders.

Long technical explainers on agents, diffusion and RL, written to teach.

Model releases, research and policy, straight from the source.

AI workflows, automations and prompts written up as things you can run today. Newsletter and blog both.

The most reliable running commentary on what LLMs can and cannot do, tested first-hand.

Learning in public, AI engineering and the shape of the developer career.

AI video for training and marketing, plus honest limitations.

Practical AI tool workflows aimed at getting time back this week.

Andrew Ng's weekly read on what happened in AI and why it matters.

Offers, lead generation and scaling, from the Hormozi portfolio.

Launching and selling software deals, from the marketplace side.

Building and monetising content sites, tested on their own properties.

Funnel building and direct-response offers at volume.

Morgan Housel and colleagues on behaviour, risk and how money actually works.

Codie Sanchez on buying boring businesses and cash-flow over hype.

Jay Clouse experiments on his own audience and writes up what actually moved the numbers.

DHH arguing, usually persuasively, against how the industry does things.

John Jantsch on small-business marketing as a system rather than a series of tactics.

Essays on business and AI with a strong editorial voice and real reporting.

Mental models and decision-making, drawn widely and written carefully.

Brad Feld on venture, boards and founder mental health.

Long, specific interviews with operators about how they actually did the job.

Founder interviews and playbooks for building an audience-led business.

Selling digital products directly, with unusually transparent company writing.

The largest marketing blog on the web, covering inbound, sales and service.

Ramit Sethi on money psychology, systems and charging what you are worth.

Founders posting real revenue numbers and what they tried, in public.

Short posts on calm companies, pricing and running a profitable software business.

Knowledge-business playbooks: offers, funnels and memberships.

Selling software and digital products, including the tax parts nobody enjoys.

Attracting high-paying clients and turning expertise into a service business that scales.

Craft explainers drawn from the instructors' own sessions.

Cohort-based courses: designing, filling and teaching them.

Business news written to be readable, plus the archive behind the brand.

The essays a generation of founders learned from, still worth rereading.

Plain-spoken guides to selling courses, downloads and memberships.

Jason Lemkin on SaaS metrics, hiring and going from zero to scale.

Checkout conversion, upsells and selling digital products.

A short post every single day since 2002, on marketing and doing work that matters.

Ecommerce operations and marketing, plus solid founder case studies.

Nick Loper's archive of side income experiments, tested rather than theorised.

Pat Flynn's long-running archive on audience building, courses and honest income reporting.

Case studies of small businesses with the numbers attached.

Ben Thompson's analysis of strategy in tech and media. Aggregation Theory lives here.

Payments, engineering and economic infrastructure, written unusually well.

Course creation, pricing and launches from the course platform.

Experiments, interviews and tools from the 4-Hour author.

Chris Do on pricing creative work, positioning and running a design business.

Course business advice, from validation through to scaling a cohort.

Selling digital products, communities and access, from the marketplace.

Advice for founders from the accelerator, plus batch and program news.

Chris Ducker on building a business around your name — positioning, authority and audience.

Offers, lead generation and scaling, from the Hormozi portfolio.

Data-led SEO studies run against one of the biggest link indexes there is.

Growth, network effects and marketplaces, from the essays that defined the vocabulary.

Content strategy from an agency that thinks unusually hard about it.

Marketing writing with a voice, from the author of Everybody Writes.

Launching and selling software deals, from the marketplace side.

Email list building and deliverability for small businesses.

Step-by-step SEO tactics, each one written up as a repeatable process.

Social media strategy backed by Buffer's own data, and unusually candid posts about running the company.

Funnel building and direct-response offers at volume.

Content strategy, research and the annual benchmark reports.

Go-to-market automation with LLMs, aimed at revenue teams.

Copywriting and content marketing, the site that named the category.

Conversion copywriting from the person who coined the term.

Growth playbooks assembled from what worked across hundreds of startups.

Glen Allsopp takes apart who actually ranks, and which companies own them.

John Jantsch on small-business marketing as a system rather than a series of tactics.

Trend data and market stat round-ups, useful for spotting a niche before it is crowded.

Email marketing, automation and landing page conversion.

Product and UX teardowns told as illustrated case studies.

Social strategy and annual trend research across every major platform.

The largest marketing blog on the web, covering inbound, sales and service.

Benchmark reports, platform rate data and campaign guides for the influencer industry.

Applying generative AI to marketing work at company scale.

Email and audience strategy from the team building the creator email platform.

Social scheduling and creator partnerships, with platform-by-platform tactics.

Harry Dry's one-page teardowns of copy and landing pages that worked.

The industry's longest-running SEO blog, still the reference for fundamentals.

High-volume marketing tactics aimed at getting traffic quickly.

Network effects and go-to-market frameworks, written for founders raising early.

Turning one recording into every platform's format, automatically.

Checkout conversion, upsells and selling digital products.

Search news plus deep how-to guides across SEO and paid.

Daily search news and algorithm coverage, reported rather than speculated.

Search, content and competitive research, with original data studies.

A short post every single day since 2002, on marketing and doing work that matters.

Ecommerce operations and marketing, plus solid founder case studies.

Agency-side growth marketing across paid, SEO and content.

Platform-by-platform social tactics, updated as the platforms change.

Daily reporting on platform changes and social strategy — the news desk of the social industry.

Rand Fishkin on audience research and the state of search and social.

Original social data studies plus practical guides on creator partnerships.

Clarifying a brand message using the StoryBrand framework.

Mark Schaefer on marketing strategy, personal brand and where attention is actually going.

B2B influencer marketing and content strategy, from one of the agencies that defined the practice.

YouTube growth, titles and thumbnails, backed by channel data.

Market theses and operator guides from the firm's partners.

Deep, patient explanations of how neural networks actually work, from one of the field's best teachers.

Claude releases, interpretability research and safety writing.

Production ML and LLM systems, from someone who has shipped them.

Deep infrastructure writing, including the best postmortems on the internet.

The front-end reference for how to actually build that layout.

Rigorous, data-heavy takedowns of widely believed engineering claims.

DHH arguing, usually persuasively, against how the industry does things.

Design craft and product thinking from inside the design tool.

Research announcements from one of the largest AI labs.

Practical open-source AI: models, fine-tuning and tooling.

Interactive CSS and React tutorials that teach by letting you play.

Systems explained with unusual clarity, often as illustrated zines.

Testing, React and web architecture, aimed at working developers.

Agent architecture and framework patterns, updated as the field moves.

The AI engineer's beat: tooling, agents and long interviews with builders.

Opinionated writing on product quality, speed and how the team works.

The reference on refactoring, architecture and delivery practice.

Workspace systems, templates and increasingly AI features.

Model releases, research and policy, straight from the source.

React and JavaScript explained from first principles by a core maintainer.

Launch stories and maker interviews from the launch platform.

Practical guides on recording, editing and growing a podcast or video show.

The most reliable running commentary on what LLMs can and cannot do, tested first-hand.

Long, practical front-end and design articles, edited properly.

Developer culture, survey data and engineering essays.

Ben Thompson's analysis of strategy in tech and media. Aggregation Theory lives here.

Payments, engineering and economic infrastructure, written unusually well.

Learning in public, AI engineering and the shape of the developer career.

Deep company and market breakdowns, unusually well researched.

Platform changes, engineering posts and developer research.

Frontend platform and framework news, with real performance detail.

Very long, very funny explainers on AI, procrastination and being alive.

The reference archive for running a WordPress site without a developer.

Web standards and craft, the publication that shaped how the web is built.

The front-end reference for how to actually build that layout.

Design craft and product thinking from inside the design tool.

Product and UX teardowns told as illustrated case studies.

Interactive CSS and React tutorials that teach by letting you play.

Opinionated writing on product quality, speed and how the team works.

Usability research written up as guidance, backed by actual studies.

Creative skills and the business of teaching them online.

Long, practical front-end and design articles, edited properly.

Chris Do on pricing creative work, positioning and running a design business.

A large, well-curated feed of practising designers writing about the work.

Frontend platform and framework news, with real performance detail.

Data-led SEO studies run against one of the biggest link indexes there is.

Building and monetising content sites, tested on their own properties.

Step-by-step SEO tactics, each one written up as a repeatable process.

Practical blogging, tools and traffic advice for independent publishers.

Glen Allsopp takes apart who actually ranks, and which companies own them.

Trend data and market stat round-ups, useful for spotting a niche before it is crowded.

The industry's longest-running SEO blog, still the reference for fundamentals.

High-volume marketing tactics aimed at getting traffic quickly.

Search news plus deep how-to guides across SEO and paid.

Daily search news and algorithm coverage, reported rather than speculated.

Search, content and competitive research, with original data studies.

Agency-side growth marketing across paid, SEO and content.

Rand Fishkin on audience research and the state of search and social.

B2B influencer marketing and content strategy, from one of the agencies that defined the practice.

The reference archive for running a WordPress site without a developer.

Copywriting and content marketing, the site that named the category.

Positioning, focus and the solopreneur path, written philosophically.

Writing online as a craft and a career, from the Write of Passage founder.

The largest marketing blog on the web, covering inbound, sales and service.

Building a one-person business on LinkedIn and X, with the actual playbook.

Attracting high-paying clients and turning expertise into a service business that scales.

Navid's own writing on building an audience, running a lean business and working with AI.

Finding the problem you solve, then building trust and reputation around it.

Short-form online writing habits, taught as a repeatable system.

Pat Flynn's long-running archive on audience building, courses and honest income reporting.

Mark Schaefer on marketing strategy, personal brand and where attention is actually going.

Chris Do on pricing creative work, positioning and running a design business.

Chris Ducker on building a business around your name — positioning, authority and audience.

Physicians and coaches on training, pain and rehab, citing the evidence.

Independent analysis of supplement and nutrition research. No products sold.

Protocol write-ups on sleep, focus, light and stress from the podcast.

Primal health, nutrition and movement, a long-running archive.

Personal growth, learning and wellbeing from the Mindvalley platform.

Strength and habit guides for people who would rather be playing video games.

Longevity, metabolic health and training, argued from the literature.

Coaching-first nutrition writing, aimed at behaviour rather than diets.

Clinicians and researchers writing on behaviour, mental health and how people actually decide.

Evidence-based lifting: hypertrophy, programming and statistics done properly.

Productivity systems and the business of being a creator, tested on himself.

Deep work, attention and the case against the always-on inbox.

Mental models and decision-making, drawn widely and written carefully.

The habit writing that became Atomic Habits, still free in the archive.

Personal growth, learning and wellbeing from the Mindvalley platform.

Workspace systems, templates and increasingly AI features.

Clinicians and researchers writing on behaviour, mental health and how people actually decide.

AI workflows, automations and prompts written up as things you can run today. Newsletter and blog both.

Frameworks on wealth, health and decision-making, in short essays.

Practical AI tool workflows aimed at getting time back this week.

Experiments, interviews and tools from the 4-Hour author.

Personal productivity methods, written independently of the product.

Very long, very funny explainers on AI, procrastination and being alive.

Simplicity and habit change, written plainly and without ads.

Markets and personal finance with historical context and no hype.

Fred Wilson has posted daily for two decades on venture and markets.

A VC who was twice a founder, writing candidly about both seats.

Morgan Housel and colleagues on behaviour, risk and how money actually works.

Codie Sanchez on buying boring businesses and cash-flow over hype.

Personal finance without get-rich-quick, running since 2006.

Ramit Sethi on money psychology, systems and charging what you are worth.

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner on affiliate income, debt payoff and running a blog as a business.

Business news written to be readable, plus the archive behind the brand.

The blog that made early retirement a movement, still funny and still blunt.

Investing questions answered with data rather than opinion.

Frameworks on wealth, health and decision-making, in short essays.

Nick Loper's archive of side income experiments, tested rather than theorised.

Daily markets reading and a long memory for bad forecasts.

Productivity systems and the business of being a creator, tested on himself.

Email list building and deliverability for small businesses.

Link-in-bio, monetisation and creator storefront tactics.

Growth tactics for newsletters, from the platform a large share of them run on.

Social media strategy backed by Buffer's own data, and unusually candid posts about running the company.

Direct fan support and small-scale membership, with creator stories.

Running a paid community: onboarding, retention and events.

Long-form guides on building a business with AI, written for creators and solo founders.

Jay Clouse experiments on his own audience and writes up what actually moved the numbers.

Positioning, focus and the solopreneur path, written philosophically.

Video and podcast editing workflows, increasingly AI-assisted.

Founder interviews and playbooks for building an audience-led business.

Independent publishing, memberships and the business of owning your platform.

Selling digital products directly, with unusually transparent company writing.

AI avatars and video generation, with production workflows.

Building a one-person business on LinkedIn and X, with the actual playbook.

Knowledge-business playbooks: offers, funnels and memberships.

Email and audience strategy from the team building the creator email platform.

Selling software and digital products, including the tax parts nobody enjoys.

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner on affiliate income, debt payoff and running a blog as a business.

Cohort-based courses: designing, filling and teaching them.

Navid's own writing on building an audience, running a lean business and working with AI.

Substack's own blog on writing, growth and building a paid readership.

Membership strategy and creator case studies from the platform.

Plain-spoken guides to selling courses, downloads and memberships.

Turning one recording into every platform's format, automatically.

Practical guides on recording, editing and growing a podcast or video show.

AI workflows, automations and prompts written up as things you can run today. Newsletter and blog both.

Creative skills and the business of teaching them online.

Community-led business, courses and the gamified membership model.

Pat Flynn's long-running archive on audience building, courses and honest income reporting.

Platform-by-platform social tactics, updated as the platforms change.

Creator storefronts, digital products and mobile-first selling.

AI video for training and marketing, plus honest limitations.

Course creation, pricing and launches from the course platform.

Gear and YouTube strategy for people building a video business.

Course business advice, from validation through to scaling a cohort.

YouTube growth, titles and thumbnails, backed by channel data.

Selling digital products, communities and access, from the marketplace.

Web standards and craft, the publication that shaped how the web is built.

Content strategy from an agency that thinks unusually hard about it.

Marketing writing with a voice, from the author of Everybody Writes.

Growth tactics for newsletters, from the platform a large share of them run on.

Practical blogging, tools and traffic advice for independent publishers.

Content strategy, research and the annual benchmark reports.

Copywriting and content marketing, the site that named the category.

Conversion copywriting from the person who coined the term.

Writing online as a craft and a career, from the Write of Passage founder.

Independent publishing, memberships and the business of owning your platform.

Craft explainers drawn from the instructors' own sessions.

Substack's own blog on writing, growth and building a paid readership.

Short-form online writing habits, taught as a repeatable system.

Clarifying a brand message using the StoryBrand framework.

Market theses and operator guides from the firm's partners.

Growth, network effects and marketplaces, from the essays that defined the vocabulary.

Fred Wilson has posted daily for two decades on venture and markets.

A VC who was twice a founder, writing candidly about both seats.