Caroline Mays
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Caroline Mays
HOW TO (actually) CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR
People want to change their lives. They want to change their relationships, their bodies, their income, their brokerage accounts, their statuses, their homes. It’s so easy to identify what’s wrong on the outside and blame it for the feelings on the inside. Never is this so painfully clear as when the
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I suspect that writers who heavily use AI (or, indeed are AI) will never not be seen, by most people, as low status. Artists tend to shrink from the concept of the ‘brand’, but a writer’s name is their brand, and it will be of enormous value to them in our new age. The authentic human author will be seen almost as a luxury good. People want to be... See more
Scamming Substack?
We make the world not with our ballots — though they do, oh they do matter — but with the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are capable of, the stories we believe to be true. Politics, after all, is just the weaponized business of belief.
D.H. Lawrence's key to balancing intimacy and independence in love, Darwin on how to evolve your imagination, Gary Snyder on how to unbreak the world
Comedians want to be funny. Great storytellers want to be remembered. For this reason, they deploy laughter strategically.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Bernadette Jiwa has written half a dozen extraordinary books that humanize the too-often industrialized craft of marketing.
In Story Driven, she makes it clear that if we merely try to fill a hole in the market, we’re doomed to a cycle of rearview-mirror behavior. We’re nothing but a commodity in the making, always wary of our competition. We have... See more
In Story Driven, she makes it clear that if we merely try to fill a hole in the market, we’re doomed to a cycle of rearview-mirror behavior. We’re nothing but a commodity in the making, always wary of our competition. We have... See more
Seth Godin on Your Story
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.