Substacks recommended by Dave Gray

Recommended by Dave Gray

The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring utopian futures through long-form essays and collaborative print pamphlets. Join us to get the Manifesto!

Inspiring explorations of possible futures.

- Dave Gray

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Austin is brilliant, a prolific artist and writer, and also a good friend. I consider myself part of his Scenius. I get a lot of synchronicity from reading his newsletter. Inspiring links galore.

- Dave Gray

Facili-station

By Jose

Weekly resources for managers and leaders to help teams to work together, make better decisions, and solve problems faster with less conflict, more engagement, more cost efficient and with real commitment.

Notes and reflections from an experienced and joyful facilitator.

- Dave Gray

Drawing to See

By Emmy Delaine

A space for slowing down, growing attentive, and being curious through art—nurturing connections with our changing planet, starting with our local ecologies.

Learning to see, bird by bird.

- Dave Gray

Consciousness ∞ The Doorway to Human Evolution

By Scott Britton

I write and podcast about the intersection of self-awareness and human potential. Previously exited startup founder.

Am I Doing This Right?

By Lian Cho

Comics and musings about illustrating, life, and navigating my 30s through the end of the world.

Just a delight to follow this illustrator’s life journey.

- Dave Gray

The SneakyArt Post

By Nishant Jain

Secretly drawn art of the world, delivered to your inbox.

The Art of Noticing

By Rob Walker Art of Noticing

Ideas, inspiration, and provocations for creativity, work, and staying human. From author Rob Walker.

Exactly what it sounds like, and we’ll done.

- Dave Gray

Signal Scouting

By Michael Leis // Signal Scout

How to make it as easy as possible to design brands and products as experiences that people seek out, act on, and share.

Letterpress Newsletter

By Christopher McCann

Resonance & Regeneration - Perspectivist Substack

By Perspectivist: Meaning & Magic Communications Substack

How can we make the value of life in all its expressions resonate again? Resonance & Regeneration explores what it means to live and communicate in cultures of abundance.

Stage 4 Capitalism

By Adam Yuret

A place where I publish honest career-killing thoughts and experiences with executive consulting and maybe some cancer stuff. Come here for Stage 4 Agiles, Stage 4 Leadership, Stage 4 product strategy, and Stage 4 HR.

Neel’s Drawing of the Day

By Neel Muller

My drawings as I draw them every day (well, mostly every day)

I love seeing these drawings in my inbox every day. Every day is different. It’s like reading tea leaves

- Dave Gray

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Plot Point Substack

By ChrissieChoo

Navigating Life's Unexpected Turns - Story Block Explorer - by Chrissiechoo A Call to Action, exploring the unpredictable narrative arcs of our lives. If we need stories to help us understand ourselves, what story will I tell about what happens next?

Oyuelo's Newsletter (🇺🇸)

Join us in this journey to foster critical thinking and imagination in our kids.

workfutures.io

By Stowe Boyd

the economics and ecology of work, in a time of accelerating uncertainty in our lives, society, and business

New ways of working, from a thought leader and practitioner in the world of work and organizational innovation.

- Dave Gray

NextDraft

By Dave Pell

The day's most fascinating news from the Internet's Managing Editor

Thomas Crone's Memory Hall

Notes from a fellow traveler on the journey of life.

- Dave Gray

Small Team Pilots: Unlocking People, Process and Performance

By Melissa Breker

Team alignment and problem-solving small team initiatives and tactics for people in mission-critical industries (utilities, transit and telecommunication). These pilots prioritize ideas, make decisions, and create products & services that customers love.

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Every post is a fun and fascinating romp through notes and notebooks of figures throughout history. Never fails to provide an insight, a chuckle, a hmmm… paid subscription is well worth it, plus you gain the satisfaction of supporting this worthwhile effort and labor of love.

- Dave Gray

Creative Destruction

By Carter Williams

Harnessing the forces of Creative Destruction. How business, finance, and technology industries drive prosperity and improve the human condition.

Think Clearly Newsletter

By Mathias Jakobsen

Currently exploring what it means to write. To live through writing. To explore and share.

Delightful to subscribe to Mathias’s live journey. A beautiful person committed to a life of meaning and “living out loud.”

- Dave Gray

Seeing Things

By Liza Donnelly

New and unpublished drawings and thoughts for people who want to see more of life, from a New Yorker cartoonist. Drawings, cartoons, words, live drawing, process, politics, culture, more...

Black Monolith - The Blog

By Jason Clauss

You either know what you're getting into, or you don't. Either way, keep reading.

Every Day is a Strategy Day

By David Lancefield

Fresh thinking and intentional moves for a more meaningful life and work

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Liminal Coaching

By Mike Parker

Liminal Coaching news, tips and techniques

Yinzer Professor

By Dan Saffer

Learning How to be a Design Professor in Pittsburgh

So fun to follow a practitioner’s journey into academia.

- Dave Gray

Glimpses of the Horizon

By Matthew Mezey

Endlessly curious about a range of inner and outer changes. Do they unlock new possibilities for us all?

Making Circularity Work

By Lou and Sam

Circularity is stuck because we're collaborating wrong. Done right, it's a strategy for driving transformation at speed. That's why we're building the blueprint for how collaboration scales circularity Join us, and let’s make it work — together.

Simplicity Central

By Philip Morley

The home of articles exploring simplicity in our working lives

REBALANCE by Jessy Zumaeta

By Jessy Zumaeta V.

🌀 Transformación en Espiral: Liderazgo, Cultura y Cambio

The GSD Way

By Justin McCullough

Get Stuff Done | Mindset, toolset, skillset expertise to help modern leaders drive growth, scale, and strategic results through high performing teams that collaborate, trust, and have a bias to act. Love People. Create Value. Get Results.

Project theory

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