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hiringdebrief.substack.com
Free
NewsletterNewsletter
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data
Context

The Hiring Debrief

A Substack newsletter on hiring trends and job market conditions written from inside recruiting, with posts on how employers screen and select candidates. Free posts are available to read and subscribe to by email.

#hiring#recruiting#newsletter
hiringdebrief.substack.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
ramonactruta.substack.com
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Essay
AI Safety & Ethics
Context

The Job That Wasn’t: How AI Companies May Be Using Hiring as a Data Harvest

Ramona C. Truta examines Alignerr's interview terms and privacy policy and raises concerns about rights to applicant recordings and data. This freely readable commentary presents the author's interpretation and allegations, not an adjudicated legal finding or individualized legal advice.

#ai-hiring#privacy#data-rights
ramonactruta.substack.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
gonzoml.substack.com
Free
Article
AI & Future of Work
Context

Nobody here writes code by hand any more

Published
2026-11-04

Grigory Sapunov describes how AI has changed his coding, research, company administration, reading and schedule. This is a personal account of AI-assisted work, not a representative study of software jobs.

#role-change#coding#ai-at-work
gonzoml.substack.comAdded Nov 7, 20260 opens
gadlevanon.substack.com
Free
Article
Career & Professional Optimization

Remote Work Has Plateaued. But not for Everyone.

Labor Matters analysis by Mels de Zeeuw and Gad Levanon of remote-work patterns and how they differ across worker groups. Published September 30, 2026; the article is publicly readable.

#remote work#labor market#workplace trends
gadlevanon.substack.comAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
technosapiens.substack.com
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ArticleNewsletter
Technology & Ethics

What the Heck Is Happening with AI Right Now? (Techno Sapiens)

Psychologist Jacqueline Nesi's explainer on recent AI safety news and concerns, written for a general audience. Commentary, not an official lab report.

#ai-safety#explainer#newsletter
technosapiens.substack.comAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com
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Article
AI Policy & Ethics

AI Governance Project

A project by the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator dedicated to researching and developing policy frameworks for AI governance, aiming to ensure that AI development aligns with public interest and regulatory standards.

vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.comAdded Oct 14, 20260 opens
adamthierer.substack.com
Free
Article
AI Safety & Ethics

On Effective Altruism

A critical examination of the Effective Altruism movements influence on AI policy, arguing against certain regulatory approaches that may stifle innovation while addressing existential risks.

adamthierer.substack.comAdded Oct 14, 20260 opens
sarthakai.substack.com
Free
Guide / Tutorial
Coding & Developer Tools

Make Your Coding Assistant a 10x AI Engineer

Substack post releasing agent-engineer, an open-source plugin for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor that adds senior engineering skills, subagents, and hooks to AI coding assistants.

#AI coding#open source#developer tools
sarthakai.substack.comAdded Oct 13, 20260 opens
nanransohoff.substack.com
Free
Essay
Research & Papers

The Third Wave of American Philanthropy

Substack essay tracing the evolution of American philanthropy and arguing that a new wave of giving is emerging, shaped by new wealth and new approaches to impact.

#philanthropy#funding#nonprofit
nanransohoff.substack.comAdded Oct 13, 20260 opens
substack.com
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ArticleNewsletter
AI & Tech News

The Essay That Started the AI Race (Kevin Roose)

Kevin Roose's newsletter post that publishes Dario Amodei's 2017 internal OpenAI memo, "The Big Blob of Compute Hypothesis," in full for the first time, with background on how it argued for making models bigger rather than more specialized and how it shaped OpenAI's early direction. Free to read on Substack.

#ai#ai-history#openai
substack.comAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
nextplayso.substack.com
Free
Newsletter
Career Search & Job Hunting

9 Things I Would Do to Land a Role at a Hot Startup

Newsletter post from next play listing nine concrete, same-day actions job seekers can take to stand out when applying to high-growth AI and tech startups, including outreach and portfolio tactics.

#job-search#startups#career-advice
nextplayso.substack.comAdded Oct 6, 20260 opens
open.substack.com
Free
Tutorial
AI & Assistive Tools

5 Stages of AI Mastery (COMPLETE TUTORIAL!)

Sabrina Ramonov's step-by-step Substack tutorial that walks from simple AI questions up to a first autonomous AI agent. Five stages: Ask AI, Think with AI, Teach AI, Delegate to AI, and Automate with AI - each with copy-and-paste prompts, ending with an agent that connects to your tools and prepares a weekly report on its own. Cites PNC Research (July 2026) finding that 98% of US households still are not paying for AI in 2026.

#AI skills#prompting#AI agents
open.substack.comAdded Oct 5, 20261 opens
gadlevanon.substack.com
Free
Article
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data

My Assessment of AI's Impact on the US Economy and Labor Market

Labor economist Gad Levanon argues on his Labor Matters newsletter (Oct 1, 2026) that most of the public debate underestimates how much AI has already changed the US economy and labor market. He estimates underlying GDP growth at about 3 percent, driven largely by AI-related business investment, and says his reading of the evidence is not definitive proof.

#labor market#economy#ai impact
gadlevanon.substack.comAdded Oct 1, 20260 opens
mattmikalatos.substack.com
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article
Technology & Ethics

Get Ready to Learn About TESCREAL

Matt Mikalatos explains TESCREAL, the term coined by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres for a bundle of ideologies — transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism — that he describes as billionaires and technologists pushing personal scientific projects while accepting fatal risks to people as the price of an "existential" need to advance the technology.

#tescreal#ai-ethics#longtermism
mattmikalatos.substack.comAdded Oct 1, 20260 opens
linkedinoptimization.substack.com
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WebsiteNewsletter
Career & Professional Optimization

Job Search Unlocked (Kristof Schoenaerts)

Newsletter on LinkedIn profile optimization and job search tactics from recruiter Kristof Schoenaerts. Free to read.

#linkedin#job-search#newsletter
linkedinoptimization.substack.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
thediydatascientist.substack.com
Free
WebsiteNewsletter
AI & Assistive Tools

The DIY Data Scientist (David Langer)

Newsletter teaching data science fundamentals to self-taught learners, written by David Langer. Free to read.

#data-science#newsletter#self-taught
thediydatascientist.substack.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
benhylak.substack.com
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Article
Technology & Ethics

Agent-to-Agent Communication Is Coming

Ben Hylak argues that as AI agents start negotiating with each other on our behalf, our privacy will depend on how well those agents handle social situations.

Why I recommend it: An opinion essay by a startup founder, not research. Good prompt for thinking about what you let an agent share.

#ai ethics#ai-agents#essay
benhylak.substack.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
cyberwarrior76.substack.com
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NewsletterNewsletter
Technology & Ethics

Cyber News Network (Substack)

Free Substack newsletter by a principal cybersecurity engineer sharing career tips and cybersecurity news, including a recurring 14-day U.S. cyber threat forecast (e.g. the September 22, 2026 VECTR-CAST report on actively exploited Cisco, ScreenConnect and VMware vulnerabilities).

Why I recommend it: Good for people moving into cybersecurity who want a practitioner's read on current threats. The threat levels and forecasts are the author's own analysis, not an official CISA rating — cross-check CVEs against the CISA KEV catalog.

#cybersecurity#cybersecurity-careers#newsletter
cyberwarrior76.substack.comAdded Sep 24, 20260 opens
garymarcus.substack.com
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

Historic UN Security Council Briefing on AI (Gary Marcus)

Gary Marcus's free newsletter post on the September 23, 2026 UN Security Council briefing where Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue spoke. He reprints Bengio's remarks in full (with permission) and argues the speakers agreed on pre-release safety testing, transparency audits, liability, international cooperation and immediate action.

Why I recommend it: An opinion newsletter written the same day, not a full transcript. Marcus is a long-time critic of AI companies and says the speakers agreed with points he has pushed for years, so read it as his take. Only Bengio's speech is reprinted in full.

#ai ethics#ai policy#ai regulation
garymarcus.substack.comAdded Sep 23, 20260 opens
theagentstack.substack.com
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PublicationNewsletter
Technology & Ethics

The Agent Stack

Technical newsletter by Vinoth Govindarajan taking AI agents apart: control loops, memory, orchestration, evaluation and what breaks in production. Recent series walks through the OpenCode architecture end to end.

Why I recommend it: Free to subscribe, over 2,000 readers; written for people who build software, not for beginners. Substack publications can add paid-only posts at any time, so check the top of a post before counting on it.

#ai-agents#architecture#software-engineering
theagentstack.substack.comAdded Sep 23, 20260 opens
manoush.substack.com
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ArticleNewsletter
Career & Professional Optimization

Do you know your p(joy) score?

Manoush Zomorodi (NPR's TED Radio Hour) coins p(joy) as a deliberate counterpoint to p(doom), the probability-of-catastrophe number traded around AI circles: instead of estimating disaster, estimate whether satisfying moments are increasing in your life and what reliably creates them. The second half is a long interview with Brian Elliott of Work Forward on knowledge work right now — identity loss as machines take a skill you spent decades building, cognitive overload from supervising AI agents, and executives privately saying their best people and heaviest AI users are the likeliest to quit. Elliott's summary: human-led, AI-enabled, because nobody's competitive advantage is being average faster.

Why I recommend it: Read this the next time an AI doom number is quoted at you as though it were measured. The piece cites Gizmodo's plain point that no one at the frontier labs has an actual method for producing a p(doom) figure. The useful part is Elliott's three patterns in companies getting value from AI: a scorecard covering business impact, quality and employee engagement rather than tool usage; aiming at teams instead of individuals; and leaders using the tools in public, mistakes included. Free to read in full, no paywall.

#ai and jobs#burnout#career planning
manoush.substack.comAdded Sep 23, 20261 opens
entrypointofficial.substack.com
Free
Newsletter
Career & Professional Optimization

Let's Create Careers (Entry Point)

A newsletter for university students and early-career professionals on building a career deliberately: networking with low effort, building a portfolio when you are not an artist, reputation-building as a young professional, early-career growth rules, job hunting after graduation, and working in and around AI. Launched in early 2026. Every issue in the recent archive is free to everyone, and the whole archive is open.

Why I recommend it: Best for the first few years of a career, where the advice gap is widest — the pieces on networking and on building a portfolio without being a designer are the ones to start with. It is one writer's experience rather than researched guidance, so treat it as a practitioner's notes: take the habits, check any claim about hiring against a source that publishes its numbers.

#early-career#students#networking
entrypointofficial.substack.comAdded Sep 22, 20260 opens
garymarcus.substack.com
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

I believe the time has come for a broad boycott of generative AI — a public argument from AI researcher and critic Gary Marcus on why the technology is not ready for widespread deployment.

From the site: I believe the time has come for a broad boycott of generative AI — a public argument from AI researcher and critic Gary Marcus on why the technology is not ready for widespread deployment.

#ai ethics#AI ethics#boycott
garymarcus.substack.comAdded Sep 19, 20260 opens