Substacks recommended by Stowe Boyd

Recommended by Stowe Boyd

Optionality

By Elisa Camahort Page

A community of practice for experienced professionals who want to rewrite the rules for meaningful careers.

The Detour by Kelly Kimball

By Frame

Weekly dispatches on U.S. & global affairs

Great source of insights across a broad range of issues.

- Stowe Boyd

School of the Possible

By Dave Gray

Join us and discover your best next step.

Dave shared some of his plans for School of the Possible, and I am eager to see where it's going.

- Stowe Boyd

More Perfect Union

Media that builds power for working people.

Visual frameworks

By Dave Gray

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Dave Gray's thoughts on visual thinking are deep and broad.

- Stowe Boyd

What Works

By Tara McMullin

What Works is a newsletter and podcast about work, the many ways it shapes us, and how we can better shape it.

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A newsletter and community dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. For the creative energy that resides in all of us.

Changing The Channel with Kirsten Powers

New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers writes about the life shifts we yearn to make, those that are thrust upon us, and the changes we need to make as individuals and as a society.

The Art of Emergence

By Schuyler Brown

An offering of mandalas, meditations, poetry and wisdom

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.

Yes, let's decrapify work.

- Stowe Boyd

Elderberries

By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox

Squeezing the juice from longer lives and careers. And sharing the lessons.

Good perspectives on life, love, and career.

- Stowe Boyd

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Up With the Workers

By Amie Stager

A newsletter by Workday Magazine, part of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. Based in Minnesota and covering the Midwest, along with international issues that affect workers, like climate change and U.S. militarism.

A strong voice for the cause and aims of unionized work in the U.S.

- Stowe Boyd

Strategy in Praxis

By JP Castlin

Incoherent ramblings about complexity-coherent strategy.

Just Two Things

By Andrew Curry

I monitor what’s happening out there—economics, technology, culture, climate—and write two notes on what catches my eye. The brief: interesting, provocative, resonant. With some analysis and context. Frequency: usually three times a week.

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Adam Tooze is one of the most insightful curators of the important working today.

- Stowe Boyd

Shift*Academy

By Lee Bryant

Your digital leadership learning companion to help make sense of AI and emerging technologies, with practical guidance and techniques for implementation.

The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past

By Rishad Tobaccowala

Helping people see, think and feel differently about how to grow themselves, their teams and their company

Rishad Tobaccowala is a brilliant critic of postnormal management dogma.

- Stowe Boyd

Work Chronicles

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

The Overlap

By Tim Casasola

Somewhere between product & organization design

Workforce Futurist

By Andy Spence

Weekly insights on building a preferable Future of Work, from technology, demographics, politics and behavioural science.

I like this publication's angle on the future of work.

- Stowe Boyd

Make Work Better

By Bruce Daisley

Re-engineering workplace culture for the hybrid age. The latest news and analysis on what comes next for work.

👁️😮🔮 Futur(s)

By Futur(s)

Demain en fiction pour comprendre le présent et ses émergences, tous les jeudis. Déjà +8000 abonnés.

Future Fossils + Humans On The Loop with Michael Garfield

Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for bold explorations at the edges of the known and knowable! Features: Future Fossils (weird philosophy, art, and music) and Humans On The Loop (deep inquiry into agency in the age of automation).

Work Futures

Recommended by Stowe Boyd