Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Amid the current boom, discerning recommendations are a blessing.

Here are 23 prominentsletterslingers with weird, beautiful, funny, and jealousy-inspiring picks.
She highlights new writers, champions transparency, and builds community.
I also recommendThe Plug, by Sherrell Dorsey.
It is data driven and accessible and smarter than 96 percent of all mainstream tech reporting out there.
Its like getting a note about something interesting from a smart friend every day(ish).
Daulerios]The Small Bowto be an extraordinarily great resource that also happens to be beautifully written.
Memento mori, pig-shaped evening bags, coral diadems??
It makes me weak.
I almost hate it!
and treats the industry with the respect it should have been getting for decades now.
Ernest Wilkins(Office Hours)
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy.
I love that one.
I really do think shes so smart and interesting, and Im always learning something new from it.
Its about food but so much more than that.
Its like podcasts without the worst part of podcasts: hearing people talk at length ineloquently.
Joshua Minsoo Kim(Tone Glow)
For all the time I spend obsessing over my skin hours!
Terry Nguyen(gen yeet)
Stacy-Marie IshmaelsThe Main Eventis a long-standing favorite of mine.
Its consistently both concise and deep.
Reading it on Sundays is my way of taking a breath and heading into a new week.
Ann Friedman(The Ann Friedman Weekly)
Air Gordon pt.
Foster Kamer(FOSTERTALK)
Money Stuff, by Matt Levine.
Its calledChosen By Choice, and its about becoming Jewish.
Its so positive and good, and I love it.
Reading Kouls words is like slipping into a bathtub full of bathtub gin: soothing yet energizing.
I go from growling to chuckling in seconds.
Id say Sophie Lewis on Patreon (Reproutopia).
I like complicated ideas, but sometimes I have trouble understanding them.
I always understand Sophie.
Plus she has a nice accent.
Maria Popova(Brain Pickings)
Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism.