Jim VandeHeiAdd Axios as your preferred source tosee more of our stories on Google.Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/AxiosI'm ruthless about my information consumption time — filtering in smart content, filtering out dumb or mediocre stuff.I also have the perspective of having hired, fired or worked alongside many of today's most talented journalists as the CEO of Axios and Politico, and as a White House/political reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal before that.So if you want to read beyond Axios, which I truly believe is the smartest collection of subject matter experts ever assembled, here's a partial list of people I find vital to pay attention to:The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on President Trump. Most political reporters write the same stuff with the same sources. They don't.The Journal's Greg Ip on economic trends. (You can click "follow" next to his byline to get email alerts when he writes.)Ian Bremmer's Monday GZERO newsletter on geopolitics.Derek Thompson, both his Substack and "Plain English" podcast, for a read on big social and AI trends.The "All-In" podcast takes on AI, the tech biz and investment — but not its political analysis.Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's "Pivot" podcast for a tech-skeptical take.The Times' Ezra Klein and his eponymous podcast for left-of-center analysis.The Times' Ross Douthat and his "Interesting Times" podcast for center-right analysis.The Journal's Lingling Wei on U.S.-China relations. (Her weekly WSJ China newsletter is more analytical than her stories.)Peter Diamandis' "Moonshots" podcast for an AI utopian take.Mel Robbins' podcast for motivation and everyday personal development.Steven Bartlett's "The Diary of a CEO" podcast, though it's guest-dependent.Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast from Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal for micro-business oddities.Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, especially the top half of the free Punchbowl News AM newsletter, for congressional leadership.Jessica Lessin's The Information and its AM newsletter for tech biz news.📚 Send me the most vital, interesting things that you read so I can share them with other C-Suiters: jim@axios.com.📈 If you're a CEO or on a CEO's team: Ask to join Jim's new weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter.