Click here to listen to Episode 1 of The Substack Podcast I’ll admit it: I’m a total fanboy of Wait But Why. Tim Urban (the writer of Wait But Why, pictured above) is able to blend the light and the deep like no one else. His essays cover heavy topics like human extinction, AI overlords, and choosing a spouse, but he sounds like a normal human and makes funny jokes along the way. His articles are so long they’re almost books, but they’re full of hand-drawn illustrations and stick figures. It might sound weird, but for me it totally works.