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Knowing when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.

Slow AI is not about chasing speed or hype. Sam Illingworth offers gentle prompts and practices that help you work with AI more reflectively. Each issue gives you space to pause, think, and explore how these tools can support a more human pace.

- Hodman Murad

Prompt-Led Product | Leadership Through Technical Clarity

By Elena Calvillo

Leadership Through Technical Clarity. You don't need to be a developer. You need to be clear. Learn the frameworks that let you win stakeholder alignment, kill ambiguity, and make decisions that stick. For PMs ready to lead, not just manage.

The Founders Corner®

By Ruben Dominguez

Your weekly BOOST to Raise and Grow Like A Pro. Tips and Techniques used by prolific Founders.

This is THE playbook for running a startup. It’s all the stuff about pitching, hiring, and mindset you wish you knew earlier. The weekly update alone keeps me sharp.

- Hodman Murad

Doctor Market Fit

By Jeroen a.k.a. Doctor Market Fit 🦄

Startup insights and frameworks for analytical founders, by an ex-founder pursuing a PhD on product-market fit.

Doctor Market Fit delivers no-nonsense, actionable frameworks for early-stage startups, written by a PhD who's turned rigorous research into practical startup wisdom. If you're navigating the messy path to product-market fit, Jeroen cuts through the noise with tactics you can implement immediately.

- Hodman Murad

The Impressionist Co.

By Alexandra Rabbitte

Musings about culture, fashion & marketing- over a decade of working with brands & chronically online so you don't have to be

Leadership in Change

By Joel

Don’t just read about AI, lead it. Get the weekly playbook for leaders who want to supercharge their expertise and multiply their impact.

The Strategy Stack

By Alex Pawlowski

Stay ahead of the curve with insights designed for Chief Strategy Officers, corporate development leads, and innovation professionals. The Strategy Stack delivers curated tech trends, enterprise use cases, and actionable frameworks.

Global Data Center Hub

Global intelligence on data centers, AI infrastructure, and grid constraints.

BigTech and AI

By Michael Spencer

BigTech and AI covers how major technology firms are integrating AI and releasing AI products or augmenting their ecosystems with AI. It is primarily concerned with companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Nvidia and so forth.

Product Strategy Decoded

By Mike Goitein

Every week, I pull back the curtain and make strategy easier using a proven framework. You'll get insights of what works today and why, with powerful takeaways you can apply to your own business.

Mike’s passion and enthusiasm for the central role strategy plays in shaping everything we see around us is infectious. He manages to demystify deep strategic concepts, making them easily accessible and actionable.

- Hodman Murad

slys.dev

By Jakub

Ever wondered how Uber’s ride matching happens in seconds, why Instagram’s feed feels like it reads your mind, or how OpenAI’s chat models can hold conversations just like us? Subscribe to our blog and unravel these secrets together!

Jakub brings 15 years of enterprise software experience to slys.dev, offering insights on software architecture, distributed systems, and big data from building systems that actually work at scale. His writing cuts through the noise to deliver practical guidance that bridges theory and real world implementation in large US tech organizations.

- Hodman Murad

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

Product with Attitude

By Karo

AI Product Manager turning everyone into AI builders & experimenters. I help you design, build, test & feature your projects on StackShelf.app. Join a 14K+ community building in public & growing critical AI literacy the only way that sticks: by immersion.

22nd Century Frontier®

By Petar Dimov

Building or Investing in the Future? This Newsletter Is Your Edge

Data Engineering Weekly

By Ananth Packkildurai

The Weekly Data Engineering Newsletter

OnlyCFO's Newsletter

Insights, benchmarks, and research for finance leaders

Strategy Shots Digest

Bite sized strategy bits

Systems & Side-eyes

By Katie Barnes

A field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.

Katie Barnes is the ops whisperer for messy startups. If you’re a founder or early team member, her Systems & Side Eyes newsletter will make you laugh, wince, and rethink how your business actually runs.

- Hodman Murad

Wondering About AI

By Karen

I build tools with Claude Code and other AI platforms and share exactly what works (and what flames out). Now I'm helping other vibe coders break through barriers and get their projects done.

If you're curious about using AI to build tools and analyze data, Wondering About AI is a great place to learn which approaches do (and don't!) work.

- Hodman Murad

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez

The VC Corner is where founders stay ahead: sharp news, fundraising strategies, battle-tested playbooks, and the tools to grow.

If you're raising money or just trying to think like an investor, you should subscribe. It gives you those actionable templates and deep dives you actually need, without the fluff. Seriously, it's like having a VC in your pocket.

- Hodman Murad

Leadership as a verb

By Diamantino Almeida

I write about AI, power, economics, and what we are building into systems our children will inherit. Shared leadership is not idealism. It is what works.

The Pipe & The Line

By Ale

Hands-on guides, tools, and experiments to sharpen your Data & AI Engineering skills from someone who learned it all in the wild.

FireBirdTech

By Arslan Shahid

AI.Tech.Fire! Stay ahead with exclusive updates on our AI-driven projects, client innovations, and the latest in AI software development. Subscribe for exclusive content

FireBirdTech is an amazing resource for learning about AI & data science. Learn directly from the company which has developed entreprise grade AI solutions for clients globally.

- Hodman Murad

Handy AI

By Jake Handy

Democratizing AI knowledge and accessibility.

Alexandra Rabbitte

my musings about culture, fashion & marketing- over 15 years of working with brands & being chronically online so you don't have to be

NEW ECONOMIES

By Ollie Forsyth

NEW ECONOMIES is your regular newsletter that discovers the latest technology trends shaping our world.

Product Management IRL

By Amy Mitchell

Product management one bit at a time - real world product management topics

Unpromptable.

By Unpromptable by James

Helping founders, creatives, and professionals become irreplaceable in the Age of AI || Subscribe: forever free 2x deep dives, community events, and free Active Prompt Vault (+ more AI & marketing tools).

Write10x helps creators and founders find deeper clarity and build AI-powered systems that make their work sharper, and unmistakably human. If you want mission-driven marketing that scales without losing soul, this is where you go.

- Hodman Murad

Startup Riders

By Ivan Landabaso

How top 1% startups grow.

Artificial Intelligence Learning 🤖🧠🦾

By Michael Spencer

I wanted a place to put some Artificial Intelligence definitions, what is, and how-to short articles to complement my A.I. coverage on A.I. Supremacy and A.I. Survey.

The Data Letter

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