What is The Frontier?

The Frontier lets you listen less and know more: a daily newspaper built from your favorite podcasts. Each morning it reads everything new from its fifty-plus hand-picked shows, across AI and technology, Bitcoin, markets, politics, and culture. When several shows tell the same story, that story makes the paper. The edition carries the seven biggest, balanced across those beats. Speed is someone else’s job.

Each edition is a calm five-to-ten-minute read. Once or twice a week keeps you in the picture: no backlog, nothing important missed. There is no feed to scroll and no rage bait. Read it and leave; the news keeps until you’re back.

Readers, not advertisers, keep it going. When an edition earns it, they send a few dollars back; most goes to the podcasters, a small share to The Frontier. One person builds it, in the open. Tell us what you’d want from a quieter way to keep up.

How is the edition made?

Our default show list

Occasionally a strong episode from outside the list earns its way in.

Value for Value

No paywalls, no ads, no begging. Just saying thank you, the way you do when someone holds the door, hands you an ice-cold beer, or offers advice you genuinely appreciate. That’s Value for Value, the Podcasting 2.0 model: if a show makes your day better, let the people behind it know by sending them some value back. Shows funded by their listeners answer to their listeners; that circle keeps independent podcasting healthy.

How we keep it honest

• Every story is written from the episodes’ own transcripts, not from secondhand coverage.
• People are named as the episodes name them, and unclear attribution is left out rather than guessed.
• Quotes run word-for-word from the transcript; anything we can’t quote exactly is paraphrased, never dressed up as a quote.

AI does the reading and the drafting, and it won’t always get things right. The source episodes stay one click away on every story, so you can check the work yourself.

Follow & feedback

On the site, the feed filters by topic, show, or guest, for your interests or to feed your clankers.

Feedback is welcome: a show we should add, something that reads wrong, an idea. Reach out on Nostr, or tap the feedback button on any page. Both land on the desk.