Top Three, by Rowan Simpson
RowanAn irregular but must-read newsletter on startups and many other random topics. It started as a weekly newsletter in 2021. A lot of that writing formed the basis for Rowan’s book 'How To Be Wrong' (published in February 2025).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 99 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 24 days ago |
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3rd May, 2026
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Well before I started writing Top Three in 2021, I had an idea for a newsletter called Nuggets. As I’ve described previously, I imagined it as a way to regularly clear out the list of snippets I t...
4th April, 2026
A rare but not unprecedented Saturday edition of Top Three…
If you know somebody else who might be interested in this, please forward it on.
The Sport Pyramid
We play it. We watch it. We coach it. We fund it. We talk about it e...
22nd March, 2026
Hard cover. Harder truths.
To mark the one year anniversary of the publication of my book How To Be Wrong, I’m excited to announce it’s now available for the first time in hardback.
The first copies will ship in April. Pre-sales...
8th February, 2026
When was good?
It seems that nearly everybody agrees, at this moment in history, that things are currently not good.
So here’s a question I’ve been asking people. Let me expand the sample group…
When was good?
Your answer might re...
The end of the beginning
To finish 2025, I’m revisiting some of my favourite Top Three posts from the last year.
In January, just a few days before we needed to lock down the manuscript for How To Be Wrong, the government announced that Callaghan Innovation would...
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