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Prestige is a brain worm, and its shape changes all the time. Keep your identity small, and don’t fear starting over. The people who will win are thos

All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture

“Over years success” - future series name idea celebrating ppl that took years and decades to win

Concerns about population growth are emerging again. A 2020 survey found that 39 percent of youth worldwide are hesitant to have children in the futur

The big cosmic joke is that energetically reaching for things from lack, actually just creates...more of it.

PirateWires JD: Friends, Romans, countrymen, I’m hiring a new writer. Could be you, could be a friend or acquaintance. Please take a look and pass t

for a long time i’ve been trying to figure out the exact kind of role i’m most interested in, and i think part of the difficulty is that it doesn’t fu

“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock

Yes > Prestige is a brain worm, and its shape changes all the time. Keep your identity small, and don’t fear starting over. The people who will win

pre-training data should be augmented with explicit moral values metadata

But the bigger loss of human agency comes from the billions of people that use these apps. These deep learning AIs are designed to maximize the time w

First, no nostalgia! The old world was bad. Those staid institutions and rigid hierarchies are not worth mourning. I went to a grinder high school and

interactive experiences for mindfulness and self-therapy to increase present-moment awareness and awaken creativity

I have always tried to take lots of notes, typically as snapshots of my mental state. What I’m thinking about, what my priorities are, where my attent

A note from Erikc when I asked him how we would approach our first ever social ad campaign: I gave this some thought on my morning run, and here's wha

What Is a Good Activation Rate

Don't Surrender to the Machine Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, partner at Build Collective, interviewed by @lennysan

And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel

Very often, I will check out three or four or five books on a writer or artist I admire; spend several hours reading, skimming, scanning, printing, an

The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma and style and weirdness is going to go up.There’s this saying that I was to

5)AUFI: Is there something you wish you could say to the brands of the world, no holds barred? CN: Brands are scared of being interesting. They’ve don

I think about all the effort and energy that goes into finding references and doing research, and I think it’s a lost art form. I started my blog and

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

Honestly: I don’t want AI to make me 10x more productive so that I can “crush it” and “stay ahead of everyone else.” I actually just want a calmer,

The whole corruption of aesthetic language is the application of financial jargon to artistic creativity. This is why instead of calling a work of art

“Another word for creativity is courage.” – Henri Matisse

In ‘How Movies Were Edited 60 Years Ago,’ an editor manually cut film splicing, taping, and rewinding at a near biblical pace. Each move carried signi

Why should what you produce, rather than what you consume, be the most important thing about you? Why shouldn’t the fact that you race boats or watch

consumption choices force you to develop the habit of self-examination. And when you think about more complex life choices — what kind of personality

Truth and falsehood are not opposites.  The opposite of one truth is often another truth, and the opposite of one falsehood is usually another.   - D

If the media is fragmented, how would you define the fragment that you are inhabiting yourself?It’s interesting. Last week we talked with Flynn McGarr

Could you give me some examples of — I don’t want to say AI-safe or AI-proof — but the types of journalism that are going to be the most robust in the

Love this from Yancey Strickler: An artist is a self-employed self-expressor. A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.

Well, I can be fooled, will be fooled in the future, probably have been fooled in the past. But the conclusions drawn from that fact are all wrong. I

I find that changing mediums is always good for my writing, so often I will go from the manila folder to a sheet of paper to a Word doc to a Scrivener

I have said that releasing certain work is like having a pap smear in public. This still feels true but before you can even get to the point of choosi

So much of making creative work is not actually being in flow, but it’s getting yourself there.

Dreamer – your home for personal intelligence // flurries of latent creativity

Learn Prompting: Your Guide to Communicating with AI

One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus