Creativity
Selling out without selling out
Growing up a disgruntled ‘90s teenager whose heroes were Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, and recording engineer Steve Albini,
Yancey Strickler
Yancey Strickler is the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent.
Creativity
Practices and cathedrals
When we start a creative project, we face a fork in the road without realizing it: is this a practice
Creativity
Formulary for New Media
We are bored on the internet. We’re wearied from raindancing for the algorithms that manipulate our attention. We’re
Creativity
Small is more meaningful than big
Imagine it’s your birthday party.
It’s the start of the night. You and your closest friends are there.
Creativity
How to talk about your creative work at a party
The other night I was at a fancy party feeling out of place.
For the first few moments I lurked
Creativity
The artist and the inner retreat
After recent reflections on the challenges we feel about needing to promote our work (here and here), we’ve come
Creativity
Promotional principles for creative people
I love to write but hate to publish. I naturally write all the time. Sharing is a separate, much more
Creativity
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed.
Before the internet being an
Dark Forest
What if you gave yourself the gift of inner acceptance?
There’s a specific modern anxiety that comes with putting creative work online. You put your heart and soul into
Dark Forest
Responses to "The Post Individual"
Since publishing "The Post-Individual" a few weeks ago, I've received more than 1o0 responses from readers
Dark Forest
The Post-Individual
A "Director's Cut" version of this piece that includes audio, video, slides, and research notes is
Dark Forest
The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
Earlier this week I spoke with the writer Nadia Asparahouva, author of the great book Working in Public.
In our
Metalabel
We're already in creative groups, they're just not yet self-aware
The creative world asks to be remade. Tells us it must be remade. It’s waiting for one of us
Entrepreneurship
How to build a newthing
How does one build a newthing?
Do you start with the parts? Do you start with the ends? Where does
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
Crypto
When the means justify the ends
This is the transcript of a talk I gave as part of the Summer of Protocols series hosted by Venkatesh
Music
Andre 3000 live at Crown Hill Theater
Last night I and a few hundred other curious souls filed into the Crown Hill Theater in Brooklyn for the
Creativity
The prestige recession
My first career was as a music critic. It started with writing for Pitchfork in some of the first years
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