Scenes
This zine could change your life
Wild theory: the modern world started with a zine. This is not an accepted idea by any stretch, but it’
Writing
Writing on writing
Creativity
Practices and cathedrals
When we start a creative project, we face a fork in the road without realizing it: is this a practice
Dark Forest
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
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
Creativity
Worldbuilding is creative resilience
“Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others…
Ideas
How culture is made
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.
Story
Ideas
Metablogging
One of the key internal rituals we adopted early on at Metalabel is something we call metablogging: internally public blogs
Creativity
The art of experiencing
“Arriving late at a performance, and seated in the center of the second row, I looked up and saw what
Bentoism
This Could Be Our Future
On October 29, Viking/Penguin Books will publish This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World.
Scenes
My friend Noel
For six weeks while writing the book, I worked from the home of an 89-year-old woman named Noel Osheroff.
I
Writing
Habits and gear
Until recently I felt too busy to think about how I was getting things done. It was all about crossing
Entrepreneurship
Introducing The Creative Independent
This morning Kickstarter launched a new project that we’re very excited about: The Creative Independent.
The Creative Independent is
Writing
Finding myself as a writer
Enough with the linking to pieces already, I know, but one more: this one on Queens of the Stone Age,