3 Newsletters Worth Reading in July 2026
by Tobi · July 19, 2026
With this series I want to read many new newsletters and share the ones I actually enjoy and keep reading. Last month was psychology, business and neuroscience. This month: Wall Street humor, AI news and the shortest newsletter I subscribe to.
Money Stuff
By Matt Levine · Bloomberg
I never thought a daily finance newsletter could be funny. Then I started reading Money Stuff.
Matt Levine is a former Goldman Sachs banker and M&A lawyer, and he writes about Wall Street with a deadpan humor that makes even the driest topics entertaining. Securities fraud, weird ETFs, insider trading cases, crypto chaos. He takes the most absurd corners of finance and explains them so well that you actually understand what's going on and why it matters.
Recent editions covered things like a proposed sports gambling ETF, GameStop's endless stock supply and the question of whether everything is securities fraud (his running joke, and honestly, he might be right). It's long, it's daily, and somehow I still read most of it.
Who it's for: Anyone who wants to understand finance without falling asleep. No finance degree needed.
The Batch
By Andrew Ng · DeepLearning.AI
The AI news space is full of hype and hidden sales pitches. The Batch is the opposite of that.
Andrew Ng is one of the most respected people in AI (Stanford professor, Coursera co-founder, former Google Brain lead), and his weekly newsletter cuts through the noise with curated AI news and a personal letter in every issue. No doom, no hype, just what actually matters this week and why.
Recent letters covered how AI coding agents change what developers spend their time on, and why the AI world has become so noisy in the first place. The whole thing reads in about ten minutes and leaves you feeling informed instead of overwhelmed.
Who it's for: Engineers, builders and anyone who wants to follow AI without drowning in hot takes.
3-2-1 by James Clear
By James Clear · jamesclear.com
The shortest newsletter on this list, and maybe the one with the best wisdom-per-word ratio. Probably a good inspiration for Polyletter to shorten newsletter and respect readers' time.
You probably know James Clear from Atomic Habits. Every Thursday he sends exactly this: 3 short ideas from him, 2 quotes from others and 1 question for you. That's it. No essays, no links to click, no "read more". You're done in two minutes.
Over 3 million people subscribe, and I get why. The format respects your time, and at least one idea per issue sticks with me through the week. Recent issues covered protecting your mind, how luck works and why improvement is hard.
Who it's for: Everyone. Seriously, it's two minutes a week. There's no excuse.