Substacks recommended by Daniel Van Zant

Recommended by Daniel Van Zant

A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking about the worlds shaping the Bay Area. New pieces every Monday.

Extremely high signal/noise ratio science magazine.

- Daniel Van Zant

Elan’s Substack

By Elan Barenholtz

Musings on the nature of mind and machines

Insights for memory from LLMs

- Daniel Van Zant

Escaping Flatland

By Henrik Karlsson

paying closer attention to relationships and life

Best online essayist I know of.

- Daniel Van Zant

More is Different

By Dan Elton

Analysis and commentary on progress in science, technology, and society. Problems are solvable - so let's solve some!

Well-written, short, and critical posts about overhyped areas of science.

- Daniel Van Zant

FreakTakes

By Eric Gilliam

I want to help people start historically great labs. Operational histories on history's best R&D orgs.

He is exploring how to build a better research org and interviewing folks who are doing it.

- Daniel Van Zant

Macroscience

By Andrew Gerard

A better science is possible

The OSVerse

By Jim O'Shaughnessy

Backing tomorrow's authors, creators & companies before the world knows their names. Home of Infinite Books, Infinite Media, the O'Shaughnessy Fellowships & the Infinite Loops podcast.

Asimov Press

Deep writing about biology.

Polished, long-form articles on fascinating things happening in biology.

- Daniel Van Zant

Mind & Matter 🧠

By Melyne

I write about clever engineering with cells and materials. Documenting my recent projects and rabbit holes.

Curt Jaimungal

Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a rigorous (and playful) manner.

skin contact

By shani

on internal wanderings

Perpetual Science by Michael Ostroff

My personal Substack

Lots of great thoughts on GR physics

- Daniel Van Zant

ekkolápto

Enhancing physiology and cognition to better understand reality.

A new type of research org that I am proud to be part of.

- Daniel Van Zant

Harry’s Writings

By Harry Gandhi

I write about entrepreneurship, moral panics, instances where Nash Equilibrium breaks, and other inklings.