Daily Must Reads

I've been clearing my inbox and focusing.

Three weeks ago in Clear The Mechanism I let on that I felt that Q4 was a time for focus. I cleared almost all of the stuff hitting my inbox, which evolved into the intent to only keep what I actually read. The rest has been shuffled off to Inoreader, which can get email only newsletters as well as RSS feeds, or I unsubscribed from Substack authors and just followed their accounts instead.

This list may evolve a bit over time, but I don’t think it will change much, so I’m posting it here in the main feed, and modifying the Reading Room to include this as well.

Attention Conservation Notice:

As above, just updating my reading list. I will describe *why* I read each one, so maybe that will interest you …

Daily Newsletters:

Axios AM - U.S. news, they do good work, and this is a single place that keeps context on things over the long haul, which many of the legacy corporate media outlets do not.

Burn After Reading - FronSight.vc’s curation on warfare, technology, and funding. This overlaps with Risky.Biz to a degree, but the kinetic angle, international affairs, and who is funding what conflict wise are all unique.

Risky.Biz - the daily output from this group is fantastic, covering breaches/hacks, tech/privacy, politics/policy, cybercrime/threat intel, malware, and APTs/influence ops. Basically all things for operations psychological/technical.

Subscriptions & Substacks:

Bullshit Hunting - investigative techniques delivered story teller style from Justin Seitz & Friends.

SpyTalk - Jeff Stein & Friends covering the intersection of intelligence, foreign policy, and military operations. 

404 Media - hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, sex, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and the democratization of the internet. They get things that Burn After Reading and Risky.Biz do not.

Radical Reports - regular coverage of what right wing extremists are doing.

Conclusion:

This Substack has 385 subscribers and almost 600 additional followers on Notes. I don’t imagine there are many who read every little thing that appears here, I know I wander all over the place. Attention Conservation Notices are meant to help people decide to hit eject before they spend time on something that will not matter to them.

That being said, I’m hoping this new focus on quality sources helps me to be a better source for those of you who do make it past an article’s ACN.

I wrote this last night, and this is what I found waiting for me at 0730 …