David Brooks

My first read is something I've become addicted to called News Items by John Ellis, which is an agglomeration site by a guy who was a longtime TV producer, and basically he does no Trump bashing.

he does the substantive issues of the day.

So for in times like this, there was a new report on AI, so he had like five items on what we're learning about AI.

Then he'll do war reporting, how the Chinese are doing in their own AI efforts.

And then it's all linking to pieces in like the FT, the New York Times, The Washington Post, but also Eurostat News, these Middle Eastern specialty sites,

academic reports, and so I really feel I'm getting the substance.

I've really become a fan of news items by John Ellis.

It's not much, it's like 10 bucks a month, it's a sub stack.

So I do that.

And of course, I do look at the mainstream, the Times, the Post, the Journal.

I think the Journal's doing very well, by the way.

I can say that now that I don't work for the Times.

They had a story, for example, the other day on comparing millennial incomes to boomer incomes.

And in many ways, even though we think millennial and Gen Z are doing much worse, in some ways they are, in a lot of ways they're not.

So I really gravitate towards stories that'll give me those kind of big social picture.

And then I read a lot of substacks.

I mean, I read some of the most common ones.

Noah Pinion, a guy named Noah Smith, Matt Iglesias, people like that.

There's a guy named Damon Linker who I like.

And so a lot of my reading is off the normal media diet.