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The newsletter authors that made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
9Dylan Patel
Founder, CEO, and Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis
9Scott Alexander
Writer at Astral Codex Ten and psychiatrist at Lorien Psychiatry
9Kyla Scanlon
Economic commentator, creator, author, and Senior Fellow at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator
9Casey Newton
Technology journalist; founder and editor of Platformer; co-host of Machine Gods
8Ethan Mollick
Associate Professor at Wharton studying AI, work, education, and entrepreneurship
Nate Silver
Founder of Silver Bulletin and FiveThirtyEight
8Alex Tabarrok
Economist, Marginal Revolution co-founder, and Mercatus chair
8EMILY SUNDBERG
Founder and writer of Feed Me; writer, director, and marketing strategist
8Taylor Lorenz
Founder of User Mag; technology journalist and author
swyx
AI engineering writer and community builder at Latent Space, AI Engineer, and Cognition
7Ben Thompson
Author and founder of Stratechery, covering the strategy and business of technology and media.
7Tyler Cowen
Chairman and Faculty Director at Mercatus Center at George Mason University
6Byrne Hobart
Founder and Writer, The Diff
6Benedict Evans
Independent technology analyst
6Sam Bowman
Head of Publishing at Stripe; co-founder and editor of Works in Progress.
6Ben Tossell
Founder of Ben’s Bites
Steven Sinofsky
Board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, investor, adviser, and writer
6Packy McCormick
Writer and founder of Not Boring; investor at Not Boring Capital; previously VP, Experience at Breather
5Azeem Azhar
Founder of Exponential View
4Matt Levine
Bloomberg Opinion columnist and Money Stuff writer
4Gergely Orosz
The Pragmatic Engineer author; former engineering manager
4Alex Wilhelm
Author of Cautious Optimism, covering technology, business, and power
3Lenny Rachitsky
Author of Lenny’s Newsletter, host of Lenny’s Podcast, and angel investor; previously product at Airbnb
3Eric Newcomer
Founder and author of Newcomer, covering startups and venture capital
3Mike Solana
Chief Marketing Officer at Founders Fund and founder of Pirate Wires
3Dan Shipper
Co-founder and CEO of Every; writes Chain of Thought and co-hosts The Every Podcast
3Alex Konrad
Founder and editor of Upstarts Media
3Peter Yang
Founder, Behind the Craft | Practical AI tutorials and interviews
3Dan Primack
Business editor at Axios and author of the Pro Rata newsletter
2Henrik Karlsson
Writer of Escaping Flatland
1Noah Smith
Economist and writer at Noahpinion
1Brian Potter
Construction Physics Author and Senior Infrastructure Fellow at IFP
1Rowan Cheung
Founder & CEO of The Rundown AI
1Jordan Schneider
Founder, editor, and host of ChinaTalk
1Molly White
Independent researcher, writer, and software engineer
1Abhishaike Mahajan
Funding public health datasets at the OpenAI Foundation; writer of Owl Posting
1Guillermo Flor
1Austin Lyons
1Elena Burger
Editorial partner at a16z New Media, exploring AI, technology, and internet culture.
1Tim Devane
Hoda Mehr
0Bill Bishop
Author of the Sinocism China newsletter
0Nathan Lambert
Co-founder and Executive Director of Trillium Labs
0Alex Danco
Editor-at-Large at a16z; writer and former Shopify product leader.