Some Blogs I Like (2026 Edition)
Exactly a year ago, on the occasion of my blog’s first anniversary, I posted an article with some advice for starting a blog. As part of that article, I posted a list of blogs I enjoyed and had been reading. Since today is the second year anniversary of this blog, I thought I’d continue the tradition and make it an annual exercise.
Some caveats:
- I don’t follow any of these blogs regularly or anything. These are just blogs that I check every once in a while and find interesting.
- Just because I list a blog here does not mean that I agree with the author. It is unhealthy to only engage with ideas you agree with.
- I’m mostly listing these off the top of my head, so I’m definitely forgetting a bunch.
Without further ado, here’s this year’s list:
- Avery Pennarun’s blog: https://apenwarr.ca/log/
- Fight for the Human (written by Cat Hicks): https://www.fightforthehuman.com/
- Wait But Why: https://waitbutwhy.com/archive
- Economics from the Top Down (written by Blair Fix): https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/
- Die, Workwear (written by Derek Guy): https://dieworkwear.com/
- Ribbonfarm (written by Venkatesh Rao, no longer updated): https://ribbonfarm.com/
- William J. Bowman’s blog: https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/index.html
- Lucidity (written by Nikhil Suresh): https://ludic.mataroa.blog/
- Where’s Your Ed At (written by Ed Zitron): https://www.wheresyoured.at/author/edward/
- Pluralistic (written by Cory Doctorow): https://pluralistic.net/
- Allen Cheung’s blog: https://allenc.com/
- Irrational Exuberance (written by Will Larson): https://lethain.com/
- Web3 is Going Just Great (written by Molly White): https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
- Citation Needed (written by Molly White): https://www.citationneeded.news/
- The Thesis Whisperer (written by Inger Mewburn): https://thesiswhisperer.com/
- Ben Kuhn’s blog: https://www.benkuhn.net/
- Eight by Seven (written by Timothy Burke): https://timothyburke.substack.com/
- Experimental History (written by Adam Mastroianni): https://www.experimental-history.com/
- Julia Evans’s blog: https://jvns.ca/
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s blog: https://jacobian.org/posts/
- “My bad opinions” (Fred Hebert’s blog): https://ferd.ca/
- Kieran Healy’s blog: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/
- Notes from a data witch (written by Danielle Navarro): https://blog.djnavarro.net/
- Sean Goedecke’s blog: https://www.seangoedecke.com/
- Cat Hick’s blog: https://www.drcathicks.com/blog
- Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
- mathbabe (written by Cathy O’Neil): https://mathbabe.org/
- Change Leadership Blog: https://changemechanics.ca/blog
- Useful Fictions (written by Cate Hall): https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/find-a-way
- Do Flamingos Know They’re Pink? (written by Tara Tarakiyee): https://tarakiyee.com/
- Baldur Bjarnason’s blog: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/essays/
- John Gallagher’s Technology Newsletter: https://meresophistry.substack.com/
- Radically Pragmatic (written by Anuradha Pandey): https://www.radicallypragmatic.press/
- Some Unpleasant Arithmetic (written by Maia Mindel): https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
- A Life Engineered (written by Steve Huynh): https://alifeengineered.substack.com/
- The Pragmatic Engineer (written by Gergely Orosz): https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
- The Noosphere (written by Katie Jagielnicka): https://thenoosphere.substack.com/
- The Beautiful Mess (written by John Cutler): https://cutlefish.substack.com/
- Kyla Scanlon’s “newsletter”: https://kyla.substack.com/
- Sasha Chapin’s “newsletter”: https://sashachapin.substack.com/
- Escaping Flatland (written by Henrik Karlsson and occasionally also Johanna Karlsson): https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/