READ
Essays and newsletters open in a typewriter pane, full text, no chrome. Select a line and it becomes a highlight in your vault, with the source attached.
Analog · Player · closed beta
Everything you read, watch and hear. One dial.
A personal media intelligence engine. It takes in the newsletters, channels, podcasts and saves you already have, scores each one against your taste, breaks it down before you spend the hour, and files what matters into a vault you own. Your taste, on tape.
▶ NOW PLAYING
◍ 2 in the queue6 on deck · interleaved so no creator dominates
watch · lecture · 3h 04m
92Why scaling laws haven't broken yet — a three-hour argument
the compute-overhang case, told by someone who ran the numbers
read · newsletter · 12 min
88The aggregation of judgment
a counterpoint to the last four things you read about distribution
listen · interview · 48 min
81What the copper squeeze is really telling us
physical markets are pricing something the equities are not
read · paper · 22 min
74Sparse attention at long context: an empirical floor
contradicts the paper you filed on Tuesday
watch · documentary · 26 min
69The quiet monopoly in photoresist
a supply-chain chokepoint you have not modelled
listen · conversation · 1h 12m
63Permanent capital and the patience premium
close to the thesis you keep circling
The premise
The feed never ends. Your attention does.
Bookmarks in five apps. Newsletters unread in a second inbox. A podcast queue older than the phone it lives on. Everyone is saving; almost no one is reading. The Player puts all of it on one console, ranks it for you, and remembers it so you don't have to. Nothing gets lost in the feed.
⌁ Sources — feed in
Every source you already have, on one console.
Connect an account, add a feed, paste a link, drop a file. The console works out what it is and which pillar it belongs to. It only ever reads. Nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf.
- YouTubewatch · subscriptions, channels
- Substackread · public and paid feeds
- Mediumread · authors, publications
- Podcastslisten · any show with a feed
- Newslettersread · wherever they arrive
- arXiv & papersread · categories, authors
- X bookmarksread · your saves, imported
- Instagram saveswatch · your saves, imported
- PDFs & filesread · watch · listen · audio, video, documents
- Any linkread · watch · listen · paste it, it tunes in
Read · Watch · Listen
Three ways in. One memory.
WATCH
Videos play in a mini player beside their breakdown. Captions become a transcript you can search, quote and re-explain.
LISTEN
Episodes go on the deck and keep spinning while you read something else. Any article can be voiced as a two-minute brief and put on the same deck.
The breakdown
Read the breakdown before you spend the hour.
Every item is scored against your taste profile, from zero to a hundred. The ones that clear the bar get taken apart: what it says, why it matters, how it argues, where it sits, what it means for you, and where it is wrong. The score is how much this matters to you, not to the internet.
sorted by signal · interleaved so no creator dominates · a counterpoint filter for the voices you read least
the breakdown · watch · 3h 04m
SIGNAL 92Why scaling laws haven't broken yet
WHAT
A three-hour argument that scaling has not hit a wall, with the compute-overhang maths run in public.
WHY IT MATTERS
It contradicts the two pieces you filed last week, and it is the cleanest rebuttal of the bear case in your feed.
HOW
Builds from training-run cost curves, then reasons through what a regulatory pause would and wouldn't change.
WHERE / WHEN
Recorded after the Q2 capex numbers; sits between the two camps you already read.
FOR YOU
If this holds, the infrastructure names on your watchlist are early, not late.
NUANCE
The numbers assume no pause. That assumption is doing most of the work.
◉ Run the tape
A research agent that works from your library.
Ask for depth on anything on deck. It pulls your context, reads across what you have kept, writes the brief and files it. Re-explain any item as the main ideas, for a ten-year-old, or at seminar depth. Get a transcript for anything with a voice. Then keep listening while it works.
✎ Learn — program guide
Name a topic. Get a program.
A sequenced course across read, watch and listen, built from real material and the creators you already follow, with progress tracked as you go. Lead with reading, or with talks, or with episodes. A playlist for a subject, not a feed for a mood.
Program · 01Transformer internals
program
5 units · 17 itemsread-led
Program · 02Urban economics of tier-2 India
program
4 units · 12 itemswatch-led
Program · 03Pricing strategy for media
program
6 units · 19 itemslisten-led
Taste
A profile that learns from what you look for.
Your taste profile is what every scorer reads. It proposes its own updates from what you opened, kept, highlighted and searched for, including the searches your library could not answer. Nothing changes until you accept it.
Discover
New frequencies, proposed from your own shelf.
Discover reads what you already follow and suggests who is missing, one lens at a time: operators over commentators, archives over news, voices outside the usual axis. Accept one and it starts flowing.
▣ The vault
Plain markdown. Obsidian-ready. Yours.
Highlights, research runs, breakdowns and saved items are written as markdown notes, linked by creator, topic and entity, so the graph grows as you read. Export it, sync it, leave with it.
- ✂highlight“The scarce thing was never information.”Sep 12
- ◉research runCopper squeeze — 14 sources, filedSep 11
- ▣keptPermanent capital and the patience premiumSep 10
- ✎programTransformer internals · 9 of 17 airedSep 09
- ≋breakdownWhy scaling laws haven't broken yet · signal 92Sep 08
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Who it is for
For people who save more than they can read.
- Operators keeping up with a field that moves every week.
- Investors and researchers who need the argument, not the headline.
- Anyone with bookmarks in five apps and a reading list they no longer trust.
The first frequency · closed beta
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