16
votes
Which Substacks do you subscribe to/follow?
Im dabbling in substack and starting with this one food writer.. but who else should i follow? I see a lot of people post these interesting essays from Substack - any general recs?
It's a bit like saying you're getting into reading without saying what kind of subject.
I follow (ish, see below) Christopher Schwarz because he's often relevant to some of what I do professionally and very much aligned in approach and ethos. If you aren't into woodwork he's probably a weird one to read though.
But substacks are just blogs behind a pay wall, don't look for them, look for good people publishing, whatever platform they're using.
There's some great stuff on substack but I only cough up the $ when I really need the content, due to substack being very happy to take Nazi content and money.
Its hard to define what im looking for specifically - i have a lot of hobbies and interested in various things. So kinda open to whatever and willing to explore what folks suggest. I'm not at all familar with the Substack content landscape.
E.g. I'd be willing to look into Schwartz bc ive been curious about woodworking and wanting to dabble in that too!
I didn't know about the paywall situation tho...
The only one I regularly read is Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten.
I made one in 2024 because I was hoping to convert various drafts I've had prepared over the years into proper posts, but I keep putting it off. Although in 2025 after a major political figure was killed I did feel like the energy was hectic enough that it did push me to write an off-the-cuff post about debate bros and how their public performances are usually equivalent to smurfing on uneducated randoms.
Every once in a while I feel motivated to try again because I want to connect with more people in order to share and discuss thoughts and ideas, but it keeps getting pushed out. I also tend to jump around topics and it feels like most platforms reward you for focusing heavily on a single topic so that you eventually become known as the main guy for some topic, but I don't want to become that.
You can probably tell from the links I share. Construction Physics is pretty good.
For (lacanian) psychoanalysis:
Slavoj Zizek (@slavojzizek)
Darian Leader (@mcshrunk)
What're you into?
What food writer is it? It would be funny if it's Sohla El-Waylly, because she's all I'm subscribed to.
Yeah its Sohla haha
Only Computer, Enhance! from Casey Muratori