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Secrets of Adulthood has 122,807 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #47 on Substack's Philosophy Bestsellers board. 62 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 24.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
122,807
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
102K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
62
+2 in 30 days
Recommends
24
Bestsellers rank
#47
Philosophy

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

120k122k124k126k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 122,807
120k122k124k126k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 122,807
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Secrets of Adulthood on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 2026122,807102K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Philosophy Bestsellers#47#474 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Philosophy Bestsellers474747470

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

62 publications recommend Secrets of Adulthood; 2 started in the last 30 days. Secrets of Adulthood recommends 24, and 12 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

3May 25111Aug22Nov5136Feb343May615Aug33Nov
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Dec 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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MonthStarted
2025-053
2025-061
2025-071
2025-081
2025-102
2025-112
2025-125
2026-0113
2026-026
2026-033
2026-044
2026-053
2026-066
2026-071
2026-085
2026-093
2026-103

Recommended by

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Recommends

  • Amanda Hesser617k followers · started Oct 2025 · mutual
  • Esther Perel473k followers · started Nov 22, 2025 · mutual
  • Austin Kleon385k followers · started Jun 10, 2026 · mutual
  • Susan Cain348k followers · started May 2025 · mutual
  • Yung Pueblo328k followers · started May 2025 · mutual
  • Joanna Goddard267k followers · started May 2025
  • Kate Bowler192k followers · started Aug 2025 · mutual
  • Wendy MacNaughton166k followers · started May 2025 · mutual
  • Priya Parker119k followers · started Nov 18, 2025 · mutual
  • Jen Hatmaker63k followers · started Sep 2025 · mutual
  • Christene Barberich44k followers · started Oct 2025 · mutual
  • Phoebe Lapine25k followers · started Oct 19, 2026 · mutualnew
  • Sarah Fain9.3k followers · started May 2025 · mutual
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Philosophy writers with 50,000 or more followers (29 writers in that group), but not Secrets of Adulthood.

  • Slavoj Žižek@slavojzizek
    recommends 6 of them
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    recommends 6 of them
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    recommends 3 of them
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    recommends 3 of them
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    recommends 3 of them
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    recommends 3 of them
  • Evander Lacroix
    recommends 3 of them
  • First Questions
    recommends 3 of them

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