Substacks recommended by Level Up by Ethan Evans

Recommended by Level Up by Ethan Evans

Sketchplanations

By Jono Hey

A weekly hand-drawn explanation of ideas from science, psychology, creativity and life.

Golden nuggets of learning in your email (and ones that usually bring a smile).

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Thought’s By Nishant Substack

By Nishant Jain

Thoughts by Nishant is a deep dive into leadership, mental models, worldly wisdom, and investing—insights that help you think better, make smarter decisions, and navigate both career and life with clarity.

ChaiTime

By Chaitali Narla

I share learnings from my 15+ years in tech leadership at companies like Google to help you turn invisible work into visible impact. With practical tips and stories I help you get the ratings, sponsorship, and recognition you actually deserve.

Chaitali is a bold leader with bar-raising advice to rapidly grow your career. She is thoughtful and thought-provoking. Follow her and take action.

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A Life Engineered

By Steve Huynh

Your weekly dose of practical and realistic tech career advice and insights. Leverage the combined wisdom of industry leaders and my 20 years of experience navigating the tech landscape to unlock your full potential.

The Uncommon Executive

By Yue Zhao

The best leadership newsletter for accelerating your career. From a Chief Product & Technology Officer turned Executive Coach from Silicon Valley. Weekly posts on career growth, leadership, and product management.

High Growth Engineer

By Jordan Cutler

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

The Developing Dev

By Ryan Peterman

Brief posts to help you accelerate your software engineering career, written by a Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram

Scarlet Ink

By Dave

Tech industry career and leadership advice from an ex-Amazon GM and Tech Director.

Thinking in Bets

By Annie Duke

Decision making in an uncertain world.

Go-to-expert for anything decision making. Annie is a super deep and thought-provoking thinker. A no brainer.

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ByteByteGo Newsletter

By Alex Xu

Explain complex systems with simple terms, from the authors of the best-selling system design book series. Join over 1,000,000 friendly readers.

Lessons

By Molly G.

Things I've learned from years inside startups and scaling companies.

Product Growth

By Aakash Gupta

Deep dives into succeeding as a PM, product leadership, and how to get your next PM job.

The Caring Techie Newsletter

By Irina Stanescu

The people skills you need to turn your potential into performance in Tech. Lessons from Google, Uber, and startups.

Andrew Yeung's Newsletter

A newsletter for the curious and extraordinary in tech and business.

Wes Kao's Newsletter

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

Work Chronicles

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

Behind the Craft by Peter Yang

Practical guides to save time with AI, craft better products, and advance your product career. Get a list of my favorite AI tools when you sign up.

Peter is one of the best writers and teachers of practical product management wisdom. I always look forward to his posts.

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Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky

A weekly advice column about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career.

If you do not already subscribe to Lenny's newsletter, you should. He brings an incredible array of CEOs, authors, and executives together to share their experiences. Lenny spends a massive amount of time researching and perfecting each article, supported behind the scenes by both artists and copy editors to make each piece as strong as possible.

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