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by a searcher from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
in Los Gatos, CA, USA

6yrs ago

Share your best reading content sources - here's my list!

I'm always in search of high quality newsletters and podcasts that will inform with depth not reached by mass news media and will feed my mind with new ideas. I'd be grateful for suggestions people can add to my list! Here's my current list of things where I read / listen to pretty much everything that comes out:

[LIST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2020 based on my own actual reading/listening and trimming the list]

Newsletters

Weekly Thoughts by Chenmark Capital - redacted

Stuff I thought About Last Week by Brad Slingerlend, NSZ Capital - redacted

Brain Food by Shane Parrish at Farnam Street - redacted

Stratechery by Ben Thompson redacted

Origin Markets blog by Raja Palaniappan - redacted

Zeihan on Geopolitics - redacted

Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco - redacted

Verdad Weekly Research by Dan Rasmussen - redacted

Tailwinds by Alex Bridgeman - redacted

Podcasts

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Think Like an Owner with Alex Bridgeman

EconTalk with Russ Roberts

The Indicator from Planet Money

Axios Re:Cap

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Exponent from Ben Thompson

A Few Tips

Overcast.FM has the best high speed listening functionality I've found among any podcast app for those looking to accelerate your listening / content consumption. Also their smart playlists are pretty useful.

I've greatly increased my reading volume by filtering my inbox to a separate reading folder. Newsletters that come in are automatically tagged (by the google machine using a filter) as reading and archived to that folder. When I have time to read and think, I open that folder and get busy.

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reply by a searcher 6yrs ago
from Northwestern University in Key Biscayne, FL 33149, USA

Highly recommended: redacted

reply by a searcher 4yrs ago
from Duke University in Kraków, Poland

in terms of podcasts, I would also add Owned & Operated and Acquisitions Anonymous. Lots of real case studies in micro PE. Think like an owner is my all-time favorite.