Nathan Spainhour

GRIMES: I think that’s the huge privilege of an artist. Nothing can hurt you because every bit of pain you’ve lived allows you to make great things.

Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and the unmistakable pleasure of smelling their own farts. They think having taste means knowing the right references and owning a Noguchi lamp. It doesn't. Taste, real taste, has always been a darkly... See more

The content industry has stumbled into a coordination failure of brobdingnagian proportions. Everyone produces more content because everyone else produces more content, and the Nash equilibrium of this game is a world where infinite noise competes for zero attention.

We are, collectively, a grinding, screaming machine that converts human creativity... See more

Timing your overnight success

If it takes three to five years for a project to gain traction, it probably doesn’t pay to start a project that the world knows it needs right now.

The challenge is picking something the world will need then. And the hard part is patiently and persistently sticking with it despite the fact that it’s not on everyone’s

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You should write something that you yourself would read.”

“OK, but don’t you have any promotional tips?”

“That was a promotional tip.”