I'm ruthless about my information consumption time — filtering in smart content, filtering out dumb or mediocre stuff.

• I also have the perspective of having hired or worked alongside many of today's most talented journalists as the CEO of Axios and Politico, and as a White House/political reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal before that.

📱So if you want to read beyond Axios, which I truly believe is the smartest collection of subject matter experts ever assembled, here's a partial list of people I find vital to pay attention to:

• The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on President Trump. Most political reporters write the same stuff with the same sources. They don't.
• The Journal's Greg Ip on economic trends. (You can click "follow" next to his byline to get email alerts when he writes.)
• Ian Bremmer's Monday The EG Update newsletter on geopolitics.
• Derek Thompson, both his Substack and "Plain English" podcast, for a read on big social and AI trends.
• The "All-In" podcast on AI, the tech biz and investment — but not its political analysis.
• Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's "Pivot" podcast for a tech-skeptical take.
• The Times' Ezra Klein and his eponymous podcast for left-of-center analysis.
• The Times' Ross Douthat and his "Interesting Times" podcast for center-right analysis.
• The Journal's Lingling Wei on U.S.-China relations. (Her weekly WSJ China newsletter is more analytical than her stories.)
• Peter Diamandis' "Moonshots" podcast for an AI utopian take.
• Mel Robbins' podcast for motivation and everyday personal development.
• Steven Bartlett's "The Diary of a CEO" podcast, though it's guest-dependent.
• Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast from Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal for micro-business oddities.
• Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, especially the top half of the free Punchbowl News AM newsletter, for congressional leadership.
• Jessica Lessin's The Information and its AM newsletter for tech biz news.

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A tiny former Fotomat kiosk has found an unlikely second life as a DJ booth and independent online radio station that's turning heads in San Francisco's Haight.

• The small setup — run by the local music label Program Audio — has been drawing clusters of curious pedestrians, electronic music fans and spontaneous dancers during its live weekend broadcasts, Axios San Francisco's Nadia Lopez reports.

💭 Nadia's thought bubble: In a city where nightlife conversations often center on what's disappeared, Program Audio seems to be creating something refreshingly analog.

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