Substacks recommended by Anton Zaides

Recommended by Anton Zaides

Weekly post about entrepreneurship, the life of the entrepreneur and lessons from my entrepreneurship journey.

Orel shares lessons from his unique journey, after quitting his job without a plan - going all-in at the entrepreneur journey. For developers who are thinking about having side projects - you’ll enjoy his writing!

- Anton Zaides

The Hustling Engineer

By Hemant Pandey

Weekly actionable tips in 2 minutes to grow as a software engineer. I write about career growth, study abroad and life experiences.

Tech Books

By Orel

Like a book club, but without the annoying people. Weekly article about the best book from the Tech world.

Recommendations and insights from the most interesting Tech books out there.

- Anton Zaides

Perspectiveship

By Michał Poczwardowski

A Tech Leadership Newsletter with hundreds of subscribers across 70+ countries and articles featured in top industry newsletters, such as "Leadership in Tech", "Software Lead Weekly" and tldr.tech.

Michał's is an experienced engineering leader, and his takes on different mental models are always insightful and fun to read!

- Anton Zaides

Strategize Your Career

By Fran Soto

Every Sunday, read new career growth strategies for software engineers. Written by an SDE2 at Amazon.

Super practical advice for software engineers on everything - interviewing, code writing and productivity. Highly recommended!

- Anton Zaides

Techlead Mentor

By Raviraj Achar

Being a tech lead is a lot about behaviors. I learned a lot through trial and error and want to share actionable tips with you to master these behaviors.

An insightful newsletter from a Staff engineer at Meta (-!: ex-Microsoft) - interesting stories and practical lessons!

- Anton Zaides

Marketing Ideas

By Tom Orbach

Get the most powerful tactics from successful startups — 1 new idea, every week.

A fun friday read, with unique marketing ideas for your products. Always interesting!

- Anton Zaides

The Software Engineering Times

By Ryan Murphy

Become the next generation of software engineering leadership and level up as a current engineering leader with weekly insights.

An honest, no bullshit take on engineering.

- Anton Zaides

Engineer’s Codex

By Leonardo Creed

Real-world software engineering explained simply.

A great new newsletter about software engineering - with detailed, useful and insightful content.

- Anton Zaides

Becoming a Leader

By Jiovanni Rosario

From engineer to engineering manager. Sharing the lessons I learn so you can support your team, too.

🔮 Crafting Tech Teams

By Denis Čahuk

Unlock the Untapped Potential of Your Engineering Team. Master yourself and rid yourself of limiting beliefs. Become the leader worthy of a high performing team. Learn how to build the right things at the right time with proven industry practices

Have you ever wondered how to make TDD work? Or were stuck with a nasty process you couldn't solve? Denis is your guy for the job. Passionate, humble, and really wants to make a difference!

- Anton Zaides

Developing Skills

By John Crickett

Helping software engineers to level up their leadership and soft skills.

Crushing Tech Education

By Eugene

Join a community of engineers and technical managers dedicated to learning System Design. Check crushingtecheducation.com for more.

The T-Shaped Dev

By Petar Ivanov

Practical tips helping you become a better software engineer. JavaScript, Software Architecture, Web, Career & Productivity.

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

Grow faster in your software engineering career with weekly actionable tips you can use right away.

The engineers that are good at their job, self reflect, and share the lessons - are very rare. Jordan is one of them. The articles are engaging, informative, and SUPER useful for aspiring developers!

- Anton Zaides

CTO Logic

By Itzy Sabo

Pragmatic, hard-earned advice for professionals at the intersection of software engineering, tech management, leadership, and business.

@Itzy Sabo is one of my favorite writers when it comes to engineering topics. Straight to the point, honest, and super interesting - subscribe!

- Anton Zaides

Hybrid Hacker

By Luca Rossi

Practical advice on leveling up from engineer to tech leader. Real-life lessons learned about management, engineering, and personal growth.

Nicola does an amazing job in explaining complex ideas about engineering leadership and productivity. He breaks it down to simple chunks, with very original illustrations!

- Anton Zaides

Product for Engineers

By PostHog

Helping engineers and founders flex their product muscles

Engineering Leadership

By Gregor Ojstersek

Weekly newsletter for becoming a great engineering leader.

Do you need to build a strong engineering organization? This newsletter is for you. It covers everything you'll need, with a lot of useful templates to actually apply the lessons.

- Anton Zaides

The Engineering Manager

By James Stanier

Tools, tips and discussions for current and aspiring engineering leaders.

Insightful and well written thoughts on engineering leadership. Highly recommended for a bit more experienced managers!

- Anton Zaides

The Pragmatic Engineer

By Gergely Orosz

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

This is the BEST tech newsletter out there, and the first I purchased a paid subscription for. A must read for engineering leaders.

- Anton Zaides

Wes Kao's Newsletter

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

This one is in my top 3 newsletters, I’m surprised all the content is still free. Wes is one of the rare original writers - who writes about NEW ideas, that I didn’t read in other places yet. Check it out, you want regret it.

- Anton Zaides