Substacks recommended by The Mode/Switch with Craig Mattson

Recommended by The Mode/Switch with Craig Mattson

Recruiters, Employer Branders and Talent Acquisition Leaders: Let's Get Serious (and Seriously Effective) with AI

James's writing is consistently smart, funny, and genuinely resourceful for anyone thinking about the stories their organizations tell about "what it's like to work here" and the stories employees themselves live as they work there. Managers, HR folk, marketing and comm divisions--you should check this out!

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Happiness Hub Substack

By Sarah Ratekin

Dr. Happy's Workplace Happiness Hub where we discuss the science behind workplace wellbeing and put that research into real-life practice!

Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield

I’m Elizabeth Oldfield and I write about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times. Spirituality, poetry, plants.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

working on purpose

By Ellen Scott

Ellen C Scott's newsletter about working culture and how to find career contentment.

Very smart intergenerational reflection

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When Work Hurts

By Meryl Herr

Why work sometimes beats us up and breaks our hearts, and what we can do about it

Refugia Newsletter

By Debra Rienstra

A fortnightly newsletter for people of faith who care about the climate crisis and want to go deeper.

This is the best ecologically focused, environmentally aware writing I read. Debra writes with all her wits about her. I find this newsletter bracing and hopeful.

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The Priory

By Karen Swallow Prior

Prayers of Attention

I pay a lot of attention to organizational stories--and this newsletter does a great job of analyzing how stories, how fiction, how poetry, how language works.

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Outrage Overload Newsletter

By David Beckemeyer

Outrage and lowering the temperature outrageoverload.net

Du Mez CONNECTIONS

By KKDuMez

Exploring connections between religion, gender, & politics and defending our democracy.

I've learned a great deal from Professor Du Mez's work in "Connections," which offers a great deal of sanity and in the teeth of the toxins that trouble liberal democracy. I hope you'll read her work.

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Embodied Faith

By Geoff Holsclaw (PhD)

Exploring an attachment-based, relational-focused, Jesus-centered spiritual formation.

Geoffrey and Cyd Holsclaw unite neuroscientific wisdom and spiritual insight to make sense of bewildering relational dynamics! Check it out.

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Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Make Work Better

By Bruce Daisley

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

Bruce Daisley does good workplace journalism in quickly digestible format. It's kind of magical, really: he manages to be substantial and accessible at the same time. If you care about workplace culture, sign yourself up for this well-edited newsletter!

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Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

Where faith, history, and justice meet the fierce urgency of now

Professor Tisby's a generous human, and his writerly vocation matters a great deal for the world. He's a historian and a theologian and a cultural critic. You'll see mostly the culture-watcher in this newsletter. Check it out!

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