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Coach Lou Holtz offers 3 rules: “I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

"Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character." Guard your habits. Bad ones will destroy you."

“You can’t improve what you don’t understand.” —Peter Drucker

Adversity is a terrible thing to waste

To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be

There is no such thing as closeness without friction.

Question to ask kids: I was asked a few weeks ago by a reporter about tips for questions to ask children in your life to engage them in a better conve

Four in five U.S. adults location-share with friends and family, despite the lack of privacy that necessarily entails. Personally, I get the appeal: D

The media market’s been stuck in a dangerous loop: demand for low CPMs has fueled low-quality inventory—and even lower-quality returns. Attention metr

“I’d tell them this: streamers are the new appointment viewing. They’ve built communities that show up for them daily, not because of algorithms but b

Beautiful design is now a commodity. I've spent the last 24 hours with ChatGPT 4o images, and it's clear we've entered a new reality: "Execution is c

Literally everyone can pump out content now. AI has democratized creation. Before AI, people couldn’t stand out because creating content was hard an

Marketing in the AI era is a game of extremes. Average no longer cuts it. Only two types of marketers will thrive: - Standout Creatives who craft un

The internet is (mostly) a machine for light things.The modern makers’ machine does not want you to create heavy things. It runs on the internet—power

the attention economy erodes trust. It rewards the most dramatic claims, the most outrageous behavior, the most compelling narratives regardless of th

“SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO,” by John Herrman for New York ($). The arcane art of search optimization shapes much of what you see on the internet:

Then on January 1, writer Sarah Hagi posted this on Twitter: “whats up with that thing people do where they have to do a performance for other adults

One of the grandest—and most obnoxious—traditions in the English language has always been the importation of French words to euphemize, to elevate, to

Creators will be the new big-box retailers. Your favorite YouTuber or TikToker might become your go-to store for everything from gadgets to groceries.

What’s striking about the creator phenomenon is that it isn’t a vertical trend; rather, it’s a through-line that cuts across social, gaming, crypto, m

Creator Economy- anyone who is creating community around original content.

For many media brands, the creator economy presents a conundrum — what is the role of brand when audiences increasingly value the intimacy of a direct

Finding extraordinary stories on park benchesTom Rosenthal wanders London's parks with a simple mission: find someone sitting alone on a bench and ask

The live stream for The Rest is Politics ▸ during the presidential election saw 2mn views over an 18-hour period. The podcast got an additional 600,00

“Community is what happens when you do what you love together.” – Pete Davis

“I think of those Vanity Fair days as the dinosaur days. They were the great days of Condé Nast, and they were so much fun. It wasn't just about the e

Many other ancient Roman writers, including the politician Julius Caesar, were similarly fascinated — or terrified — by the women they encountered amo

In fact, communities that are matrilineal — where descent is traced through the female line — matrilocal — where women remain near their families afte

In his 1975 book, Women of the Celts, French historian Jean Markale delved into historical sources, old Welsh and Irish laws, as well mythological tra

In his 1975 book, Women of the Celts, French historian Jean Markale delved into historical sources, old Welsh and Irish laws, as well mythological tra

I had been taught by my family and culture that there is nothing more tragic than a single, childless, middle-aged woman. But as someone who has now b

The creator economy is in its early days, really. The mass adoption of television occurred in the 1950s, and the creator economy started in earnest ar

You did an Emotional Tough Mudder.

“The Job Centre is probably responsible for the majority of good British art and music,” Lloyd says

There’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

I’ve always thought it best to go about life with the slight suspicion that you might be very special, tempered with the humility to realize that you

And one of the biggest lies that internet culture tells us is that something is only important and interesting if it is new. As someone whose day job

What does slow AI look like? We’ve automatically assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? Would it be inte

What would you say the purpose is of each platform you're on?So many people, especially older newsrooms or older men in newsrooms who are trying to fi

What didn’t I ask you that I should have?The handles for our very anemic social media!

History does not repeat, but it rhymes

if you listened to that hot podcast or that must-read audiobook while cooking dinner or hanging the washing out, then you could add it to your pile of

“Every day above ground is a good day”

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it will be a butterfly — R. Buckminster Fuller

People Can Only Meet You As Deeply As They’ve Met Themselves.