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titus's avatar

Eugyppius

https://www.eugyppius.com/

(he hosts substack acct on his own domain)

American in Germany, works in health care research. He mainly writes about covid, German/Euro politics and political philosophy (in descending order of focus). Very not-FITs.

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John Hamilton's avatar

I would recommend the following:

1. https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-numbers

2. https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/men-like-vs-women-like

Also, if you liked the first post, then this book review also is of interest: https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/book-review-at-our-wits-end-ed-dutton

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Age of Infovores's avatar

You may have come across Niccolo Soldo, but I think you'll find parts of this pretty interesting.

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/saturday-commentary-and-review-96

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Niccolo Soldo's avatar

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it.

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James Liu's avatar

https://www.thediff.co/p/jane-street

Absolutely fascinating. One of the best things I've read all year. I'd be surprised if you didn't already read this. But maybe you hadn't.

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MattW's avatar

There are a lot of great ones out there but the only one I would pay for would be if marginal revolution moved to substack. I've been wondering why they haven't, how much money are they leaving on the table...

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Carl Tuesday's avatar

Hrm - first I'll self promote my own (too sporadic) writings which are generally on institutions writ large, Congress, interesting threads from FIT-types and energy policy matters; all things I like to think I know something about. It's a bit rude to suggest jumping in part way but I'd point to my Part 2 of my ongoing thoughts on institutional decay within Congress and some of the incentive structures we have in place:

https://failsafe.substack.com/p/congress-dont-just-do-something-sit-519

The Julia Galef (by way of Arnold Kling, actually) lens on energy policy is a shorter read: https://failsafe.substack.com/p/self-deception-might-help-with-motivation

Along the lines of ever-greater specialization to stand out a la the blog-o-sphere - I can't resist pointing to this post (as one of many excellent examples) in Brian Potter's substack focusing on the construction industry and costs/processes/opportunities for innovation. Brian is now being supported by the excellent Institute for Progress. I highly recommend his multi-part series on nuclear construction costs and lessons to be learned from ship-building. The NEPA primer is somewhat basic but a good primer as well.

Example post: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-much-do-construction-costs-matter

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Hotel Alpha's avatar

I was incorrect, it is from a writer on Bari Weiss' substack

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Hotel Alpha's avatar

I know you read Matt Shapiro, but today's post is worth highlighting:

https://polimath.substack.com/p/science-goes-too-slow-for-the-news

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Jeff Rensch's avatar

perhaps Chris Arnade, walker of the world

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Carl K Linn's avatar

OK, I'm biased, but this one is an immediate classic:

https://carlklinn.substack.com/p/updated-weed-enlightenment-or-wishful

On cannabis in Thailand and the power of a free market.

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