Substacks recommended by Richard Merrick

Recommended by Richard Merrick

Learning through doing

Regenerative leadership & organisational development

The Pocket Dojō

By Paul Crick

Enabling leaders & teams to work together better from the inside out.

Democracy for Sale

By Peter Geoghegan

A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy

Robert’s Substack

By Robert Paterson

My personal Substack

Some great insights around artisans and the idea of enclosure to be found here.

- Richard Merrick

Johnnie Moore’s Substack

Stories about working with people and finding real emotional connection

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Ian Berry on human being centred conversations

sharing experiences about how language right for the moment and the people present enriches conversations which enhances relationships that in turn enable our best as human beings

The CEO Whisperer

By Dr. Anthony Howard

Helping you be the leader the world needs you to be, by someone who has been mentoring CEOs for more than 20 years

Numb at the Lodge

By Sam Kriss

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

Work/Craft/Life

By Neal Bascomb

Illuminating stories of people and the work that shapes their lives. A newsletter that will inspire, move, inform, or just make you say wow! Join our community and broaden your view of the world!

Craftsmanship

Highlighting master artisans, innovators, and pioneers who are creating a world built to last.

There are some wonderful metaphors and inspiration is this blog that inform our own explorations into work that matters.

- Richard Merrick

The Future of Leadership with Ed Brenegar

How we got here and where we are going.

Decrapify Work

By Colin Newlyn

The rants and musings of a recovering Executive on the sad state of work today, why it's so crap for most people and what to do to make it less crap. I bring my personal experience of 25 years in the corporate hellscape and almost as long in recovery.

Great insights and passion here. We are not alone :-)

- Richard Merrick

Japanese Traditional Artisans

By Hiroshi Onaka

Introduce modern craft persons who have passions to inherit the Japanese traditional crafts onto the next generation.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Strategy in Praxis

By JP Castlin

Incoherent ramblings about complexity-coherent strategy.

I have a budget for paid subscriptions and alternate them. Except this one. I like is as both source and challenge.

- Richard Merrick

Luke Burgis Newsletter

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

Simon Owens's Media Newsletter

By Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter

A newsletter about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. This newsletter is free to subscribe to.

Outside the Walls

Recommended by Richard Merrick