“CoryBantic is a Marine combat veteran turned Army intelligence analyst and a USC doctoral student. He writes on resilience and transition without the transition-industrial gloss. He is a WTB contributor and a friend, and I recommend him because his sentences carry the same tension his life does.”

“TK Rok writes The Development Journal from ten years training leaders and educators. Draws on adult development theory, systems thinking, conflict resolution, and neuroscience, and brings each one down to the specific move a person can run in the next meeting.”

“Gloria Mark is a professor at UC Irvine and one of the few researchers writing about attention who has actually measured it in the wild. Her Substack extends the argument of Attention Span into the terrain most of us live in now. If your work depends on people being able to think for more than a few minutes at a stretch, read her.”

“Annilee Newton teaches composition and writes about the writing. Her Substack is where I go for the thing most writing advice skips: the specific move that turns a stalled paragraph into a working one. Practical, close to the sentence.”

“Jemar Tisby writes Footnotes at the intersection of faith, history, and justice, and he does the two-front work most religious commentators duck: naming white Christian nationalism as it operates, and holding the Black Christian tradition against it. Read him for both the record and the frame.”

“Betweenward is the Substack María Tomás-Keegan and I co-founded for adults building meaningful next chapters. If you are between two versions of your working life and want the language to name where you are, that is where the writing lives.”

“Duncan Chapel writes RedMole for revolutionary activists across 47 countries. Ecosocialist analysis of the British and international left, at a level of detail almost no U.S. publication carries.”

“Stefan Bauschard curates Education Disrupted, which is "dedicated to preparing students for an AI-driven world." If you teach or run a program that includes teaching, read it.”

“CDR Salamander writes the closest Navy commentary I have found to the standard I try to hold at WTB. Specific, named, and unwilling to soften the record for institutional comfort. If you are a Navy or Marine reader here, start with him.”

“Steve Vladeck is a constitutional law scholar who writes One First to make Supreme Court procedure legible. If you read The Grammar of the 2026 Election on WTB, Vladeck is the source I keep going back to on the emergency docket, on standing, and on what the Court is actually doing week to week. Read him for the specifics.”

“Dr. Wanda Cooper writes from inside the classroom on what learning actually looks like when the system stops working. Short, honest, specific.”

“Arimitsu writes short, spare essays on the shapes silence and refusal take inside institutions. Titles like "Silence Arrives as Approval" and "The Office of Being Disbelieved" name what most institutional writing walks around. Read a few pieces back to back — the voice is what stays.”

“Bob Ewing coaches leaders on how to say what they actually mean when the stakes are high. His pieces treat rhetoric as a discipline. The exercises he writes are usable the same afternoon. Worth reading if the words in your own meetings are starting to slip.”