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While I’ve just started reading it, Casey Newton’s “Platformer” newsletter seems like genuinely informed coverage of the tech industry. Stratechery is focused m

While I’ve just started reading it, Casey Newton’s “Platformer” newsletter seems like genuinely informed coverage of the tech industry. Stratechery is focused more on the business side, so they’re not identical, but I do think Thompson can be a little more blinded by his own biases—his analyses are often of the “clearly, [thing X] happened because of [theme I keep returning to],” and as entertaining as his articles are, they’re starting to feel a bit like cork boards covered with index cards and colored twine, where all the links are to things he’s written previously. (Disclosure: I’m a Stratechery subscriber over the last few years considering dropping down to a membership only for the twice-weekly Dithering podcast.)

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Casey’s is interesting, good at the stories pre-occupying users more than investors. Glad he’s having a big moment right now with Twitter. His coverage of Basecamp last year was good. What I find with Thompson is that his big public stories have the problems you describe, but the paid content is succinct and pulling in the best parts of news stories. I’d almost rather have the option to skip the big stories and receive everything else. I also like the interviews, though recently I’ve been amused by how often the same guest appears on Nilay Patel’s podcast in the same week. (They are as well and discussed it on each other’s podcasts together.) I’m quick to skip ads, so the listening experience is similar. My perhaps uncharitable guess is that the user who started this discussion doesn’t have any need of analysis in their job, or isn’t busy enough to benefit from a paid news filter. But I’m still hoping to hear from them.