Substacks recommended by Randall Hayes

Recommended by Randall Hayes

Alexandra Fasulo

Currently building House of Green Saratoga

Forging Fiction

By Fiction Community

Helping fiction writers upgrade their skillset and amplify their audience

Futurist Letters

By Cairo Smith

Part of the next wave. Essays and short fiction on tomorrow and the past. Buying exceptional work. Pseudonyms welcome.

Home Base with Jeff Warren

A friendly community with free guided audio meditations every week, and mini-essays on the baffle-wonder-challenge of somehow existing.

Woman of Letters

By Naomi Kanakia

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.

Castle Grief

Settings, house rules, adventures, and ideas for your TTRPG experience.

Free the Inquiry

By Heterodox Academy

Free the Inquiry brings you fresh news, smart commentary, original research, and expert analysis from the Heterodox Academy staff to keep you informed on what's happening at the intersection of open inquiry and viewpoint diversity in higher ed.

Unapocalyptic

By Karl Schroeder

Karl Schroeder helps you achieve "earned" optimism about the future using a mix of wild science fiction speculation and hard-nosed strategic foresight. Paid subscribers get new serialized fiction, deeper analyses, and more input to the process.

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy and science fiction on Substack. Periodically posting essays, interviews and reviews.

because I write science fiction sometimes

- Randall Hayes

Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf

By Jane Psmith

The P is silent, as in pshrimp or pseudonym.

Quick Update

By Jeff Jackson

A first-person, weekly account of serving in Congress as a freshman member from North Carolina. Totally free.

There was a specific post about fake anger that I found refreshing and valuable, and not just because of the pro wrestling reference in the photo.

- Randall Hayes

The Lost Tools of Learning

By Brandon

What if schools were designed for humans? Putting together a big-picture view of humanity to craft new kinds of schools.

Of Boys and Men

By Richard V Reeves

rising to the challenges faced by the modern male

Of the 60+ students in my 3 freshie biology lab sections, 5 are chromosomally XY male (I assume; I haven't tested their chromosomes).

- Randall Hayes

The Egg And The Rock

By Julian Gough

Novelist Julian Gough (author of Minecraft's End Poem) redescribes the universe.

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Crow + the Poet

By Lex Orgera

Poet, essayist, herbalist, gardener with a penchant for the mythical and sometimes the mystical. Asking why since 1977.

Having met Lex in person recently, it seems like there's a lot of interesting stuff swimming around in her head.

- Randall Hayes

The Goldenrod

A news and culture publication covering the vibrant small towns, hamlets and communities of Central and Eastern Kentucky.

'cause I am also a Kentuckian

- Randall Hayes

Uncharted Territories

By Tomas Pueyo

Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech; the future of democracy, energy, education, and more

Everything Thomas does involves maps in some way, but otherwise, it's all over the place, which I love.

- Randall Hayes

SolarPunk Stories

By Alex

Let's make a deliciously sustainable future together

Unfolding the World

By J. Daniel Sawyer

Examining fundamental change during tumultuous times.

The Late Magician

By Cabot O'Callaghan

Divining reality through our fog of madness via essays, fiction, poetry, and memoir. Sometimes all at once.

Fight to Repair

By Fight To Repair Newsletter

Fight to Repair reports from the front lines of the global fight for the right to repair our stuff. Written by Paul Roberts and Jack Monahan of Secure Resilient Future Foundation (SRFF), F2R brings you original reporting, news roundups and podcasts.

Better Worlds Theory

By M L Clark

Media literacy, speculative lit, humanist essays, global analysis

50 Years of Text Games

By Aaron A. Reed

A deep dive into text game history, from The Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon, now in book form! Click "No thanks" below to skip the subscribe box; the top story has details on how to get your own copy.

I love the idea of interactive fiction, though I read and write almost none of it (RPGs scratch that itch for me), so this now-finished project was absolutely fascinating.

- Randall Hayes

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

By Brett Scott

I explore the frontiers of modern money and technology, and draw pictures to help you see our economic system with new eyes

I think a lot about the mythology of money. Bret writes about the science of money -- which is a an invention, a tool -- and how that morphs into myth. "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

- Randall Hayes

Luke Burgis Newsletter

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

because contagious culture is real

- Randall Hayes

New_ Public

We’re a nonprofit R&D lab that’s reimagining social media. Join us in building digital public spaces that connect people, embrace pluralism, and build community.

While I play around with imagining better futures, they're trying to build the tools to make them happen.

- Randall Hayes

BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power.

Cabinet of Wonders

By Samuel Arbesman

Be prepared for radical interdisciplinarity: science + technology + complexity + humanities + wonder.

His latest post on model errors gets right to the point. As Leinweber notes: “Weak data require simpler models.” https://arbesman.substack.com/p/the-kitchen-sink-conundrum-and-simulations

- Randall Hayes

Doctor Eclectic

Recommended by Randall Hayes