Weekly thematic digests

One week, one topic, every source that mattered

Distill reads a hand-picked set of YouTube channels, podcasts, newsletters and expert accounts for one topic, summarizes each item from its actual content, and condenses the week into a themed overview. Every claim keeps its link. Nothing outside the source list gets in.

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How it works

1. 1 · Collect

   Every curated source is queried for what it published inside the week — Sunday through Saturday. Consecutive issues tile exactly: nothing counted twice, nothing lost between them.

2. 2 · Read

   Videos and podcasts are transcribed, articles fetched as text, X accounts searched for their own posts. Summaries are written from that material, not from a headline.

3. 3 · Summarize

   Each item is condensed strictly from its own content, with attribution kept where a claim is contested — and a link back to the original.

4. 4 · Synthesize

   The per-item summaries, and only those, become a cover story and a fixed set of themed sections. Anything too thin is bundled, never dropped.

The pipeline is ordinary code, not an autonomous agent: the same input takes the same path, and the language model only ever transforms text it was given. The full method →