The Frequency Archives
This is the archive of The Frequency, Rebel 75’s newsletter. Here we collect past issues—one idea at a time—on culture, leadership, and navigating change.
January Issue 1 — Create Clarity, Not Certainty
This issue explores the difference between clarity and certainty in leadership, using a story about planning a multi-generation trip to illustrate why leaders should set direction instead of controlling every step. The Tiny Rebellion prompt asks teams to align on the one or two priorities that matter most for the year ahead. The issue also features community artwork in the Art Corner and a short Rebel Notes reflection.
January Issue 2 — Read the Room, Not the Brief
This issue examines why the real dynamics of a team rarely appear in project briefs or official narratives. Through a consulting story from the early days of COVID, it shows how tone, silence, and side conversations often reveal what’s actually happening inside a team. The issue includes a Tiny Rebellion exercise to surface practical culture improvements and highlights a Rebel community member’s work in the Craft Corner.
April 2026 - AI at Work
This month’s issue of The Frequency examines what happens when AI enters real organizations and the way work changes faster than the systems around it. We feature the article Everything is Faster. Nothing Feels Simpler., exploring blurred roles, thinner coordination, faster decisions, and the growing importance of invisible work. The issue also includes a Tiny Rebellion on noticing what’s quietly holding things together, and a Craft Corner on authorship, “slop,” and where we draw the line between tool and creator.
February Issue 1 — Stop Weaponizing Resilience
This issue examines how the language of “resilience” is often used to shift responsibility for unhealthy systems onto individuals rather than addressing the culture that creates the problem. Drawing on a consulting experience and the PR6 framework, it challenges leaders to focus on building conditions that make resilience possible instead of demanding more endurance from their teams. The issue also features a Craft Corner reflection on Wabi Sabi and a Tiny Rebellion prompt asking leaders to listen to how their own behavior may be making resilience harder for their teams.
February Issue 2 — Hail Mary Culture
This issue examines “Hail Mary Culture” — workplaces that run on last-minute heroics and mistake survival for strategy. It unpacks how organizations normalize crisis cycles where drift, panic, and burnout become the operating system instead of disciplined planning. The issue also features a Craft Corner reflection on mise en place — preparation that removes the need for miracles — and a Tiny Rebellion prompt asking teams whether they are designing work to succeed or planning to save it later.
March 2026 - Topic of the Month - Alignment
This month’s issue of The Frequency explores the theme of alignment—why teams talk about it constantly and still struggle to achieve it. We feature the article “Quicksand — On Vision & Tenacity,” launch our first Rebel Talks episode on the myth of alignment, and close with a Craft Corner on quilting and resistance, looking at how craft traditions carry quiet acts of leadership and persistence.