Creativity
What can Metalabel do for you, really?
Most of us are skeptical of new spaces and things. Do we really need to shift things up? Don’t
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How to and what it feels like to start and operate projects
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The first release platform for creative work
Today we’re unveiling a big step in establishing a new model for creative people to grow and flourish together:
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Creation feels like standing in the middle of the ocean and trying to start a wave
When you stand on the precipice of something you’ve worked hard on finally seeing the light of day, the
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We're not for everyone — and that's the truth
Right now the Metalabel squad is in the throes of the creative process of something you’ll see in the
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Do you post or do you RELEASE?
In the old days people introduced new creative work with movie premieres, launch parties, tours, and opening nights. Picture searchlights
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Practices and cathedrals
When we start a creative project, we face a fork in the road without realizing it: is this a practice
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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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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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Notes on hiring
Over the past decade-plus I’ve hired many dozens of people. Many of these hires went spectacularly well, and I
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On having a 1-of-1 purpose
A unique purpose is something people will advise having in a theoretical way (I did it in this post last
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On competition
There are days you unmistakably feel it: the plans of your project and other projects are converging. What started as
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The internet culture era
“How culture is made” tells four stories spanning centuries that show how creative collectives have shaped the world — from the
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Native behaviors
This was first posted as an internal metablog within Metalabel.
Imagine you’re told you need to direct a percentage
Ideas
Metablogging
One of the key internal rituals we adopted early on at Metalabel is something we call metablogging: internally public blogs
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After crypto
This essay was originally published in Works in Progress.
Few words are as divisive as “crypto.” Say it and half
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Eight impressions from Seed Club 04
Earlier this year Metalabel was one of twenty projects in the fourth cohort of Seed Club, an eight-week accelerator program
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Rethinking labels
Sup y’all — Since we last spoke almost a year ago, I’ve been working on a new project called
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Introducing Metalabel
In 2020, Tariq Trotter, better known as Black Thought in hip-hop group the Roots, explained his involvement in an unusual