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One Useful Thing
By Ethan Mollick
Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick
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Rarely Certain
By The Rarely Certain newsletter
Welcome to the post-tribal struggle. Being 'right' is overrated anyway. It's not what you think, it's why you think it. Some posts about personal subjective wellbeing (not self-help shit).
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Community Field Notes by Bill Johnston
How communities and networks drive growth, innovation, and resilience. Field notes on building them.
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Yascha Mounk
Big ideas that help you think for yourself.
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The Value Creators
By Hunter Hastings
Value creation economics, entrepreneurship, rethinking business education, reimagining capitalism along Austrian lines.
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Simon Owens's Media Newsletter
A newsletter about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content. This newsletter is free to subscribe to.
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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
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Leadership, Rewritten
The playbook is broken. I write about what comes next for leaders navigating complexity and collapse.
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The Future of Leadership with Ed Brenegar
How we got here and where we are going.
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Unintended Consequences
By Thomas White
This is an ongoing exploration of the unintended consequences of our choices for others. My specific emphasis is leaders in the age of AI.
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Play Makes Us Human
By Peter Gray
Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living
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Japanese Traditional Artisans
By Hiroshi Onaka
Introduce modern craft persons who have passions to inherit the Japanese traditional crafts onto the next generation.
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Democracy for Sale
By Peter Geoghegan
A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy
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Striking 13
By Ian Dunt
A newsletter about British politics. Written from the bad place.
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KK
By Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly's works in progress
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Platforms, AI, and the Economics of BigTech
By Sangeet Paul Choudary
Your guide to strategy and policy in the age of platform ecosystems, BigTech dominance, and AI.
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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
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Unexamined Technology
By Aki
Join me on a journey from distraction, disillusionment, and collapse anxiety to shifts in attention and worldview; to staying calm in the storm we are living through; to rediscovering imagination and meaning in a quiet life.
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Make Work Better
By Bruce Daisley
Re-engineering workplace culture. The latest news and analysis on what comes next for work.
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Sean McClure
Writings by Sean McClure
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The Honest Broker
By Ted Gioia
A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia
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New Artisans
By Richard Merrick
I write for professionals who sense that conventional career wisdom no longer works and are ready to rediscover the craftsperson's way of navigating uncertainty.
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Thought Sparks
By Rita McGrath
Ideas about Strategy, Innovation and Growth by Rita McGrath
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The Curiosity Dividend
By Carlo Navato
The Curiosity Dividend is a newsletter for the curious, a collection of entangled parts, fragments from a life making space.
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Surviving Corporate
By Colin Newlyn
For those are struggling with corporate life, those who are sinking fast and those who are dealing with the aftermath and recovery.
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In the Writing Burrow
By Margaret Atwood
Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.
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GRACEWorks
By Paul Crick
For high achievers who are done hustling for worth.
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Only Dead Fish
By Neil Perkin
A weekly Substack at the intersection of AI, strategy, transformation insights and quirkiness, designed to inform and challenge, written and curated by Neil Perkin
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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
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Experimental History
By Adam Mastroianni
1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.
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JoeProcopio.com
By Joe Procopio
I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. I write about what I do. My Substack is free versions of all my paywalled public content from Inc., Entrepreneurship Handbook, and everywhere else, for 7 days after publication.
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Living the Questions with Parker J. Palmer
Living from the inside out...
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Luke Burgis Newsletter
Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.
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How Not To Use AI
By Abi Awomosu
Ex-Big Tech insider with an outsider's perspective. Teaching the opposite of what everyone else teaches about AI. For those who sense the dominant narrative is missing something and want to engage on their own terms.
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Humanise
By Dr. Anthony Howard
for those trying to stay human in a world losing its humanity. Because the future depends on those who do.
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BAD GIRL MEDIA
By stepfanie tyler
Essays + frameworks for clear thinking, personal agency, and modern life.
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The Classical Mind
By Andrew Harker
Classical thoughts, philosophical insights, and a teacher's wisdom for anyone ready to prioritize their intellectual life.
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Johnnie Moore’s Substack
Stories about working with people and finding real emotional connection
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Will Musson
I’m an engineering leader and producer with over thirty years in AAA game development, leading multidisciplinary teams on titles across franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, and Ghost Recon.
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Numb at the Lodge
By Sam Kriss
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here
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Heartwork
By Asha
At Heartwork we love to let our heart lead the way in our lives. Whatever we love turns to love.
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On the Level with Margaret Heffernan
By Margaret Heffernan On the Level
I write about how we think, invent and make decisions. I also ask difficult questions and try to answer them.
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The Alchemist from Rory Sutherland
What I can't fit on Twitter - or am too afraid to put on Twitter.
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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!
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Dan Parsons' Substack
Helping people make sense of change and align around what really matters.
“The work that people like Dan and Johnny Waugh are doing in this space is really important. Those of us who've been here for a while understand the real power of time-out and safe space.”
— Richard Merrick
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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
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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
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