Connective Tissue
Connective Tissue, Elise Granata, Sam Pressler, Soren Duggan, Josh Nesbit, Margo Miller, Ian Marcus CorbinA newsletter on the connections, communities, and commitments that bind us together.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 112 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Tending to the grief and eros in our rural places
This is the first newsletter we’re publishing since Wendell Berry’s passing. No thinker has influenced what we publish in Connective Tissue more than Wendell — I somehow seem to feature his writing in nearly every newsletter (including toda...
The “Tissue Review” | Summer 2026
On the monetization of our leisure time and the economics of friendship — plus an event on practicing democratic self-governance and a spotlight on Mat Cotton Jr.
The Tissue Review is Connective Tissue’s members-only round-up of our favori...
Putting our theories of membership into practice
Today, we’re inviting you to become a Connective Tissue member. Joining is a commitment to support the newsletter and to support your fellow members — the hundreds of community-builders, neighbors, business owners, funders, facilitators, th...
Re-blurring the lines between journalism and civic life
Darryl Holliday is a journalist, network-builder, community steward, and civic strategist committed to creating correctives for what’s not working in civic life. He’s the co-founder of City Bureau, the Documenters Network, Illustrated Press...
What Money Can't Buy
“Connection is unstructured, unmeasured, and unmonetized. That gap is a market.
The Connection Economy is what’s forming to fill it. It’s not one type of business. It’s a whole category spanning industries that have never really talk...
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A newsletter on the connections, communities, and commitments that bind us together.
Facilitator and community steward. Writing from the heart of my experience with co-ops, gathering spaces, collectives, and secret local projects I'll tell you about when we're friends.
Writer @ Connective Tissue | Trying to make my grandmas proud https://connectivetissue.substack.com/
Strategist | Writer | Veteran
Building something new with love!
Philosopher at Harvard Med, Director of the Public Culture Project at Harvard College. My first book, "To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out soon: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263626/to-arrive-where-we-started/
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