Rising on Substack this week: Philosophy

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

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Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

DAN KOE

387k followers · #1 Philosophy Bestsellers

+49 in 30 days 56 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Rick Rubin

401k followers · #5 Philosophy Bestsellers

+43 in 30 days 64 in all

53 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Stoic Philosophy

363k followers · #15 Philosophy Bestsellers

+24 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 56 in all

51 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Pelle Martens

11k followers

+19 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 51 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Alex O'Connor

90k followers · #18 Philosophy Bestsellers

+18 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 54 in all

43 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Buddhist Psychology

25k followers

+15 in 30 days 50 in all

30 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Florence Given

73k followers · #25 Philosophy Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

27 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Matt Gottesman

26k followers · #36 Philosophy Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 53 in all

25 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Richard Gordon

2.4k followers

+13 in 30 days 50 in all

41 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Stoic Wisdoms

416k followers · #16 Philosophy Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days 54 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Slavoj Žižek

222k followers · #6 Philosophy Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days 59 in all

40 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Marquise Gold

7.9k followers

+11 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 40 in all

39 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.