NOT RISING elevates the everyday voices calling for a better tomorrow.
We notice writers who strengthen the building blocks of a healthy society: a freer self, a stronger community, reciprocal business systems, and an honest culture.
* Image credits: the respective writers
the algorithm didn’t pick this. humans did.
Self-Agency
“What Is Disabled Joy” by Melinda | Under Stewardship
Melinda tackles the subject of disabled joy with such care, clarity, and a remarkably grounded perspective. This is a powerful reflection, and one we all need to hear.
What sets Elizabeth of Wealth GPS apart is her focus on the human relationship with money—and her gift for delivering financial wisdom through storytelling. Income disparity doesn’t break marriages. Letting income determine worth does.
BUSINESS
“The Product That Broke First” by Riko Kardamow
The CEOs are right about right now. The charts are right about what comes next. Flight cancellations may be just the canary in the coal mine.
culture
“Utopia” by Machine Poet
It had me at bleeding equations, then again at mandatory love, and again at the absence of mind. Machine Poet doesn’t just hit. It hits. And hits. And hits.
community spotlight
Human curation can be more powerful than the algorithm, but only when the community shows up to prove it.
These humans overrode the machine by restacking and recommending work that they believed was worth amplifying.
They are also incredible writers themselves. After all, it takes one good writer to know one.
if it’s not rising, it could be important.
Curated by the Stackhunter™ Team