Substacks recommended by Operating by John Brewton

Recommended by Operating by John Brewton

Managing Director - Commerce Practice Leader Deloitte Digital B2B B2C Commerce Expert Keynote Speaker / SME Digital Transformation Alum: University of Waterloo

ARK Strategy

By From Alex Randall Kittredge

Careers aren’t ladders: they’re portfolios. A millennial entrepreneur's insights on modern work. I help professionals building careers in a system not designed for them. Each piece asks: What do we owe our work, and what does it owe us?

Top notch career and company building perspective for our modern world. A must read!

- Operating by John Brewton

Slow AI

By Sam Illingworth

A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI. One slow idea at a time.

Exceptional perspective on how to grow your relationship with AI with slow and steady strategies to maximize learning and productive opportunity.

- Operating by John Brewton

Marketing in Progress with Moritz Fritzen

Proven marketing strategies for B2C startups: Featuring real-world frameworks, practical insights, and hard-earned lessons from expert Moritz Fritzen.

Top notch, startup centric, marketing perspective and strategy from Moritz! A must read.

- Operating by John Brewton

Off the path

By Elis Wilkins

The newsletter for anyone redesigning work to fit life. Clarity, freedom, and purpose. One experiment at a time.

If you are a professional in transition, curious about what the landscape of opportunity looks like in our digital and creator-centric world, then Off the Path by my friend Elis Wilkins is where you need to start. You'll be happy you hit subscribe.

- Operating by John Brewton

The Strategy Trap Newsletter

By Kevin Ertell

Strategy fails when execution is an afterthought. This newsletter helps leaders close the gap with practical tips, operator insight, and occasionally a little fun.

One of my favorite Substacks for experienced company and product strategy. A must read!

- Operating by John Brewton

Growth Code

By Ryan Yockey

Actionable strategies to grow your audience, monetize your skills, and build leverage online.

From my good friend, Ryan Yockey, Growth Code is must read material for solopreneurs and Linkedin centric creators. Be sure to follow Ryan on Linkedin as well.

- Operating by John Brewton

Leadership in Change

By Joel

Lead with AI. Lead through AI. Lead despite AI. The weekly playbook for leaders who want to get it right.

Terrific perspective on AI-centric change for the mission driven leader from my friend, Joel Salinas.

- Operating by John Brewton

AI blew my mind

By Daria

90% of people use only 10% of AI. Get weekly prompts, automations, and stealable workflows that put you ahead of the crowd.

Retailgentic

By Scot Wingo

Exploring the intersection of retail, ecommerce and GenAI Agentic systems.

Career Compass

Sharing practical advice, job market insights, and actionable strategies to help you navigate career transitions, land meaningful jobs, and grow professionally with clarity and confidence.

Superb practical advice, job market insights, and actionable strategies to help you navigate career transitions, land meaningful jobs, and grow professionally with clarity and confidence.

- Operating by John Brewton

Unsubscribe

By Justin Welsh

One weekly essay for people stepping off the default path to build lives they love, supported by work they enjoy.

Product with Attitude

By Karo

AI PM & Builder helping creators design & build tools, not just try them. Learn vibecoding & get featured on StackShelf.

The Circuit

By Jonas Braadbaart

AI and automation insights for people that want to work smarter, not harder

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.

Business English

By LoopEnglish

Hi, I'm passionate about writing and teaching all the time ; I'm a learner, who likes to read blogs and write to solve business communication skills and break the complexity of using the language into simple solutions.

A wonderful weekly digest of communication tips for the business professional. In an age where how we communicate is increasingly crucial, this is an absolute must read each week.

- Operating by John Brewton

Build to Thrive

By Juan Salas-Romer

Build to Thrive delivers strategies, playbooks, trends and tools that help you build smarter, scale your business and stay ahead of the game.

Exceptional, actionable entrepreneurial, soloprenuer-centric perspective for folks building and creating here on Substack.

- Operating by John Brewton

Work Forward

By Brian Elliott

Building better ways of working for people and organizations.

AI Adopters Club

By Kamil Banc

Become the AI expert at your company. Get practical workflows and templates that save time, cut costs, make money, and prove your value. I give you the playbook, you get the results. Deal?

Global Data Center Hub

Global Data Center Hub delivers global insights where capital, power, and compute converge for investors, operators, and technologists building the infrastructure behind AI.

Write10x

By James Presbitero

Helping mission-driven creatives and founders reach more people with AI, while staying authentic. Free tools to write 10x better, faster, and more human. Get the Active Prompt Vault (20+ high level prompts for writing and marketing) in the welcome email.

Strategy Shots Digest

Bite sized strategy bits

From Idea to Impact

By Rajesh Mathur

Insights on project and product leadership from Big Tech to startups. For delivery leaders, managers, and tech professionals aiming to grow their careers and deliver better software.

For all the project managers out there, my friend Rajesh provides an fabulous and entertaining perspective from his unique persepctive and corner of the professional world.

- Operating by John Brewton

The Founders Corner®

By Ruben Dominguez

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

Game changing perspective and actionable, company building direction from Top VC Chris Tottman. A Must sub and read for all founders and operators!

- Operating by John Brewton

Millennial Masters

By Daniel Ionescu

Big ideas and bold moves. For founders and leaders building what’s next. ✨

Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

Elite Leaders Newsletter

By Dennis Berry

Master your mind and your business... and design a high-performance life.

Game changing leadership perspective from my friend and LinkedIn legend, Dennis Berry!

- Operating by John Brewton

@andrewchen

By Andrew Chen

Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI

Clearly Tech

By Paul Mah

Tech insights and explanations that stay with you. On AI, cybersecurity, cloud, data centres, enterprise IT, and sustainability.

Learning VC💡

By Luis Llorens

Venture Capital, Investments, and Fundraising: Sharing Insightful Personal Experiences from My Day-to-Day as an Investor.

Generation AI

By MIT Work of the Future

A newsletter from MIT's Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future

The Compounding Tortoise

Sharing in-depth reports on high-quality compounders | Teaching our subscribers how to build a portfolio with high returns and low risk

The VC Corner

By Ruben Dominguez

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

Best in class, must read, VC/Startup perspective and immediate takes on current events impacting everything Silicon Valley & Tech. Absolutely incredible team. A must follow!

- Operating by John Brewton

Really Good Business Ideas

By Casandra

Really good business ideas to help you start and grow a profitable business (including on Substack). All ideas are backed by research and analysis.

Curated iOS

By Artjoms Vorona

iOS newsletter covering topics like Live Activities, Push Notifications, Xcode, SwiftUI, UIKit, and more.

Venture Curator

By VC's Newsletter From Venture Crew

Steal proven tactics from top founders and elite investors. Join 45,000+ for exclusive insights for free.

Nate’s Substack

Daily newsletters from the cutting edge of AI, including breaking news, strategy, product breakdowns, and thought pieces.

The AI Engineer

By Owain Lewis

AI Engineer is a weekly newsletter about building AI systems that actually work. I share practical systems, strategy, tutorials, frameworks, and lessons from real projects, covering everything from deploying production-ready code to automating workflows.

The best practical and actionable content for how to actually build with AI from a world class engineer and developer (and wonderful friend of mine) Owain Lewis. Brilliant stuff for all those starting to build with AI.

- Operating by John Brewton

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

How They Make Money

By App Economy Insights

Weekly business breakdowns delivered by a Silicon Valley senior finance executive. Join investors, visual thinkers, and data-driven professionals. Become a smarter decision-maker in minutes.

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.

For all the product strategists, this is a must read.

- Operating by John Brewton

The War on Prices

By Ryan Bourne

Chamath Palihapitiya

I make bets on disruptive ideas, technology, and people. Subscribe to learn with me.

Retained Learnings

By Brendan Aronson

One business lesson delivered to your inbox and easily consumed in < 5 minutes per week.

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

House of Strauss

By Ethan Strauss

Sports, Business, Politics, Culture

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.

The Stein Line

By Marc Stein

Insider coverage of the NBA since 1994

Wes Kao's Newsletter

A bi-weekly newsletter on managing up, executive communication, and standing out as a high-performer. Written by an a16z-backed founder.

Linas's Newsletter

By Linas Beliūnas

The only newsletter you need to subscribe to for all things when Finance meets Technology. For founders and builders, for scalers and managers, for investors and innovators. Both current and future ones.