Creativity
The artist and the inner retreat
After recent reflections on the challenges we feel about needing to promote our work (here and here), we’ve come
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Creativity
Promotional principles for creative people
I love to write but hate to publish. I naturally write all the time. Sharing is a separate, much more
Creativity
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed.
Before the internet being an
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What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance?
There’s a specific modern anxiety that comes with putting creative work online. You put your heart and soul into
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Responses to "The Post Individual"
Since publishing "The Post-Individual" a few weeks ago, I've received more than 1o0 responses from readers
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The Post-Individual
A "Director's Cut" version of this piece that includes audio, video, slides, and research notes is
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The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
Earlier this week I spoke with the writer Nadia Asparahouva, author of the great book Working in Public.
In our
Metalabel
We're already in creative groups, they're just not yet self-aware
The creative world asks to be remade. Tells us it must be remade. It’s waiting for one of us
Entrepreneurship
How to build a newthing
How does one build a newthing?
Do you start with the parts? Do you start with the ends? Where does
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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
Five years ago back when this list was less than 500 people, I sent a post about how I felt
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When the means justify the ends
This is the transcript of a talk I gave as part of the Summer of Protocols series hosted by Venkatesh
Music
Andre 3000 live at Crown Hill Theater
Last night I and a few hundred other curious souls filed into the Crown Hill Theater in Brooklyn for the
Creativity
The prestige recession
My first career was as a music critic. It started with writing for Pitchfork in some of the first years
Scenes
Themes from the past year
A year ago this week, my family and I moved back to NYC.
The previous five years we were on
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Climbing out of the rabbit hole
“Climbing out of the rabbit hole” is a private Google Doc circulated to friends sharing Metalabel’s reflections on the
Creativity
The Parable of the Three Lakes
Before hikes, my partner encourages our family to ask nature a question.
On a recent hike in British Columbia, I
Entrepreneurship
Notes on hiring
Over the past decade-plus I’ve hired many dozens of people. Many of these hires went spectacularly well, and I
Creativity
The cultural Doppler effect
The Doppler effect is what makes a siren change tones as it whooshes by. Because of the physics of sound