Yancey Strickler

Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur whose work supports artists and creative people. He is the cofounder of Metalabel, Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, The Dark Forest Collective, and Artist Corporations. He is the author of This Could Be Our Future, The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, and On the Creative Life. He grew up on a farm in Southwest Virginia and lives in New York City.

Metalabel
The operating system for creative work that helps people cooperate rather than compete.

Artist Corporations
Artist Corporations, or A-Corps, are a new structure for creative work.

The Dark Forest Collective
A collective of writers releasing work that explores how we live online. Published two books: The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet by eleven authors and Antimemetics by Nadia Asparouhova.

New Creative Era podcast
Co-hosting a weekly podcast with Josh Citarella exploring how we release work and develop our creative practices. Also now in book form: On the Creative Life.

A revolution that won't be quantified

Hello friends new and old. After the first two weeks of a creative listening tour, a string of thoughts about

02 Jun

Creativity

No AI, no lengthy edits, just a single-shot on a Sunday morning. In a flow state with the void I’

18 May

The other day I found myself having lunch with a well-known musician and book editor. They were talking about the

07 May

It's 6:30pm on a Monday and I'm standing off-stage waiting for someone to call my

13 Apr

Entrepreneurship

It’s hard to grasp how uncertain the present feels until you’re in it. Looking back, we compress complex

06 Apr

Creativity

Time moves at different speeds depending on your creative practice. As a filmmaker your projects move across many years, each

29 Mar

Writing

Hello friends new and old — It’s been a minute since we last talked, so I felt like saying hi.

16 Mar