Step 1

Pick your sources

Paste links to the writers you already trust: Substacks, blogs, newsletters, YouTube channels, podcasts. No discovery algorithm, no "people also follow" — your sources are the whole universe the fox reads from.

Got a tangled inbox or a 200-channel subscription list instead? Forward a few newsletters or paste your YouTube subscriptions — I'll work out who you actually follow.

Your sources · 8

StratecheryMoney StuffBenedict EvansWorks in ProgressVeritasium · YouTubeThe VergeAstral Codex TenAcquired · podcast

Next up: X/Twitter and Instagram sources. The fox is practicing his scroll.

Step 2

Say what you care about

Not tags. Not sliders. A few plain-English sentences about what you want more of and what you're done with. The fox reads it the way a smart friend would.

You can edit it whenever — and every "more like this" or "skip these" I get in Telegram quietly sharpens it.

Your taste profile

"Deep takes on AI strategy, no hype. Science videos that earn their runtime, skip the shorts. Keep the occasional great essay about anything, and anything Levine writes about ETFs."

Step 3

Read only the good stuff

Once a day, the fox reports to your Telegram: each pick — essay, post, or video — gets one line on why it cleared your bar, and a link. Most days that's two or three things. Some days it's none — and I'll say so instead of padding.

Everything I skipped stays skimmable on request. Spoiler: you won't ask.

3Blue1Brown · YouTube8:02

A visual proof of why convolutions show up everywhere — the rare 22 minutes that earns all 22.

Watch it (22 min)
Clove8:02

Just the one today. I read 19 posts and watched 7 videos; the rest were fine. Fine isn't the bar.

Adjust my taste
See it work

Watch the fox work.

Same sources, two different tastes. Flip the profile and watch what the fox sends — and what it leaves on the cutting-room floor.

Your sourcesEverything you follow
PickedLevine on a weird ETF mechanic — exactly the markets nerdery you asked for, and funnier than it has any right to be.
PickedA structural read on how the AI model layer reshapes the business — strategy, not hype. Squarely your lane.
SkippedA lovely physics explainer — but you're here for AI and markets, not the speed of electricity.
PickedThree hours with a frontier-lab researcher — but the middle 40 minutes on training economics is the real one. I'll point you there.
SkippedA gadget launch with a press-release headline. No analysis, all hype — straight to the skip pile.
SkippedMore vibes than argument this week — a thesis you've already read five times. You asked for no hype; this is hype.
The fox reads it allJudged against your taste

Your taste profile

Deep takes on AI strategy and markets. I want the analysis nobody else is doing — skip launch hype, science explainers, and consumer gadget news.

Read 6 sources · sending you 3

Your TelegramOnly the worthwhile few
Cloveonline
Money Stuff

Levine on a weird ETF mechanic — exactly the markets nerdery you asked for, and funnier than it has any right to be.

Stratechery

A structural read on how the AI model layer reshapes the business — strategy, not hype. Squarely your lane.

Lex Fridman Podcast

Three hours with a frontier-lab researcher — but the middle 40 minutes on training economics is the real one. I'll point you there.

That's everything today. I read 6 things; these 3 were worth you.

Same sources, different taste — the feed bends to you, not the other way around.

House rules

What Clove refuses to do.

Most reading apps are engagement machines wearing a cardigan. Clove is defined as much by what it won't build as what it will.

Infinite scroll

Deliveries end. “That’s everything today” is a feature.

Engagement bait

No streaks, no badges, no “you’re on fire!” Nothing is on fire.

“Because you watched”

The fox recommends from your sources and your taste — not a lookalike audience.

Unread counts

There is no pile. If you missed a day, you missed nothing you’d have wanted.

Notifications about notifications

One delivery a day. That’s the contract.

Selling your attention

No ads, no sponsored slots in your deliveries, no data resale. You’re the customer, not the product.

Set it up once. That's the whole job.

Five minutes of setup, then the fox reads forever. Start free.