Substacks recommended by Ernie the Attorney

Recommended by Ernie the Attorney

Before book sales and PR buzz, your favorite writers began with two things: the blank page and an idea. Each week on How I Write, we go behind-the-scenes with the world's great writers to uncover the meta-mechanics of writing and the lifestyle behind it.

Living Beyond the Numbers by Jude Boudreaux

By Campfire Connections

Every number in your life tells a story - what stories do you want to tell?

Dave Barry’s Substack

It's pretty random.

DYING BREED

By Dying Breed

Cut from a stained glass mountain

The Preamble

By Sharon McMahon

News, politics, and history from #1 NYT-bestselling author Sharon McMahon. Breaking down government and law in straightforward ways you won’t find anywhere else. If you want clarity and context—delivered with sanity and reason—The Preamble is for you.

Carpe Diem Life

By Ilona Anderson

Trademark and Business Attorney. Empowering creatives and entrepreneurs. I write on law, veganism, entrepreneurship, mindset, spirituality, parenting, travel. Who says lawyers don't have fun?

Lawyers in the Making Podcast

By Nate Crespo

This Podcast explores the unique journeys of Law Students and professionals in the legal field, sharing their stories, experiences, and wisdom.

An aspiring lawyer interviews practicing ones to gain valuabe insight

- Ernie the Attorney

The Road to Accountable AI

By Kevin Werbach

Practical ideas for building artificial intelligence systems that are responsible, trustworthy, safe, ethical, and effectively governed, along with insights on AI policy and regulation.

Law Subscribed

A digest of all things subscriptions and the law.

PDF Automation Station

By David Dagley

PDF JavaScript and tips for Acrobat Pro

Lawyers should learn to use PDFs better and this is a good source of information

- Ernie the Attorney

The Art & Business of Digital Writing

By Art & Biz by Nicolas Cole

Nicolas Cole's personal newsletter: how to write & monetize in the digital world.

ProfessorPDF

By The Professor

Adobe expert with 20+ years' experience, sharing tips & tricks for Acrobat DC & PDFs. Join me in exploring the full potential of PDFs on this insightful newsletter!

Aaron is my go-to PDF guru and I enthusiastically recommend him to other lawyers.

- Ernie the Attorney

Ashtronomical

By It's Ash!

How to reinvent your career, pursue your passions, and work from anywhere in the world. Written by Penguin Random House author Ash Ambirge.

Spunky wisdom from a nomadic, contrarian young woman from Philly.

- Ernie the Attorney

Barry Seidel

Articles and observations about starting and building a law practice from both business and personal perspectives. Observations about life and business.

Write With AI

By Nicolas Cole

The leading paid newsletter for ChatGPT & Claude prompts, and how to turn AI platforms into your own personal Digital Writing Assistant.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Join 36,000+ Substack writers and creators using Substack to fuel their writing, careers, and lives — with the leading Substack Strategist, Sarah Fay

Jordan Furlong

The best new ideas and strategies for transforming the (legal) world

Uncommonly helpful insights for lawyers. A must read!

- Ernie the Attorney

Texas Appellate Counsel Digest

By D. Todd Smith

A curated digest of appellate law insights, practical strategies for trial lawyers, and the latest content from the Texas Appellate Counsel Blog and Texas Appellate Law Podcast.

Thinking in Bets

By Annie Duke

Decision making in an uncertain world.

Annie Duke makes smart decisions & helps others do the same.

- Ernie the Attorney

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

The famous author of The Handmaids Tale shares interesting observations about daily life from her writing nook.

- Ernie the Attorney

Book Freak

By Mark Frauenfelder

Short pieces of advice from books

Great book recommendations from an interesting book worm

- Ernie the Attorney

The Mother Makers

By Kat River

The Mother Makers is a thriving symposium for the Mothers, The Makers and the Mystics. Designed to be an honest exploration of the deep dance between Motherhood, Creativity, energetic business and self inquiry into optimism.

Living the Alexander Technique

By John Dalto

The Alexander Technique can improve your overall well-being. If you've been feeling the strains from over-working, suffer from headaches or back aches, or want to be more creative, these short articles can help! Get my article every week for fresh ideas!

Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

insights into human nature, psychology & conditioned beliefs.

- Ernie the Attorney

You Are a Story with Will Storr

A newsletter about about telling, being and believing stories. Exploring how to live better lives and write better stories, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling

Three Times Wiser

By Kpaxs

Get smarter, three times over. Sharing big ideas, mental models and principles of wise thinking curated from insightful books.

Big ideas, behavioral economics, and principles of wise thinking.

- Ernie the Attorney

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance

Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism.

Former US Attorney & sensible legal commentator

- Ernie the Attorney

The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Adjacent Possible

By Steven Johnson

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

Untangled with Charley Johnson

A newsletter and podcast about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it.

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

The Stein Line

By Marc Stein

Insider coverage of the NBA since 1994

JFK Facts

By Jefferson Morley

Authoritative journalism that seeks to clarify the causes of JFK's assassination and to abolish the official secrecy that still surrounds it

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Incredibly interesting & creative.

- Ernie the Attorney

Wrong Side of History

By Ed West

It's Ed West's sub stack

Garrison Keillor and Friends

This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.

If you know about Prairie Home Companion then you know why you want to subscribe to this.

- Ernie the Attorney

OUTLET: One Useful Thing Literally Every Time

By Tim Duggan

A punchy email giving you 'One Useful Thing Literally Every Time' to help you be better at work and life.

The Free Press

By Bari Weiss

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Respected journalist Bari Weiss provides unflinching commentary, reasonable analysis, and thoughtful opinions

- Ernie the Attorney

Category Pirates

The authority on category design & category creation. Sharing how legendary entrepreneurs, executives, marketers, and creators design business breakthroughs. By Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, & Katrina Kirsch

Uncommonly powerful marketing insights

- Ernie the Attorney

Holly’s Substack

By Holly MathNerd

math lessons, creativity, deafness, drawing, non-Woke culture war takes, PTSD, personal reflections

Wake Up To Politics

By Gabe Fleisher

Helping you wade through the world of politics, five days a week.

Original Jurisdiction

By David Lat

News, views, and colorful commentary about law and the legal profession.

What To Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking

By caro chambers

one ridiculously impressive complete-meal recipe delivered to your inbox every saturday morning that dirties minimal dishes and requires under an hour of time.

New York Cartoons

By Jason Chatfield

A free cartoon in your inbox every week + live drawing videos with creative insights, along with hand-drawn stories that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in NYC is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.

The Weekly Dish

By Andrew Sullivan

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - Orwell

Andrew Sullivan is relentlessly provocative, insightful and urbane.

- Ernie the Attorney

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Letters & bite-sized wisdom from famous people

- Ernie the Attorney

Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Slouching toward understanding: making sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more by betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same

Astute economics observations by a sensible U.C. Berkley professor

- Ernie the Attorney