Welcome to Rethink with Rachel!

I’m honoured that Rethink with Rachel is a Substack Featured Publication for 2023! 🙂


Hi there,

Rethink is a space to do more slow thinking (and less busy doing). It’s a newsletter for ideas that shift your lens on something important, prompt an interesting or even difficult conversation, or help you understand a problem in a new way. 

In Rethink, I model an approach I bring to my work as an author, artist, and speaker. I take great care in joining the dots and finding meaning across disciplines: sometimes through art and philosophy, sometimes through science and psychology, and always through the lens of curiosity. 

It’s a process that has helped me make art, teach at Oxford, and write my two books–What’s Mine Is Yours and Who Can You Trust? It’s my hope that you will find echoes and relevance in your personal and professional lives each week.

Rethink is also a way for me to have a closer, more direct relationship with readers, writers, designers, students, entrepreneurs, leaders, and thinkers. Hello! (👋 from my desk in Oxford)

Whether you sign up for free or upgrade to a paid subscription, I'm so glad you’re here. 

Warmly,

What you can expect:

Rethink is like a map of my own practice and line of inquiry into the origins of ideas that reshape our lives. You’ll get sneak peeks of new projects I’m working on as they grow and develop. You’ll be on the inside of my search for the real meaning of concepts. I also openly share all the things I listen to, read, watch, and enjoy. 

I’m told by readers they find it a thoughtful and vibrant space. That it’s for smart, curious people to think about how they think, how they form new ideas, challenge misconceptions and stretch and pull on concepts.

I also hope you find it a visual feast full of sketches and images that bring the ideas to life.

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About Rachel

I’m Rachel Botsman. I’ve lived on four continents, given three TED talks, written two acclaimed books, and was the first Trust Fellow at Oxford University. I live in Oxford with my husband, two children, and beloved dog Mack. I’m a gardening enthusiast, book nerd, and artist at heart.

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Rachel Botsman has lived on four continents, given three TED talks, written two critically acclaimed books, and created Oxford University’s first course on trust in the digital world at the Saïd Business School.