Dave Chappelle has a new special about his old show that includes fundamental lessons about how the Internet has changed the content business.

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A site packed with quality music theory articles, lessons in guitar technique, helpful advice and guitar instruction from professional musicians.

Learning to design is learning to see, an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to my profession.

Sometimes it means, “there isn’t enough money to pay for that.” Certainly, among the undeserved poor, this happens all the time. And for things like health care and education, tragic…

In his letters—the pre-digital medium for distant long-form conversation—Seneca instructs his friend Lucilius to find one thing each day that will fortify him against death, despair, fear, or adversity. Just one thing. One nugget. And that’s what most of Seneca’s letters to his friend are about. They have a quote in them. Or a little prescription. Or a story. But in each case, Seneca is explicit. Here’s your lesson for the day, he says. Here’s your one thing. Obviously that’s the logic behind the daily emails I write (Daily Stoic and Daily Dad) but it’s also the way I try to live. Every tim...

On new creator platforms, individuality is a feature, not a bug.

After taking notes on hundreds of Podcasts over thousands of hours it call comes down to this. It wasn't easy, but we've selected the 10 very best shows of 2020 along with the gems of wisdom for you all in one place.

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Josh Spector shares how he helps thousands of creators succeed by providing transformational, niche content.

Businesses that figure out how to leverage TikTok will have an advantage in building brand awareness, cultivating user trust, and efficiently acquiring customers.

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Five Mental Models for Creativity and Innovative Thinking

Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don't neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards.

The “cook vs chef” dynamic is one that I’ve been thinking about more and more. WBW gives the best start to finish overview of the difference between reasoning from first principles and following the crowd.

MBAs love to talk about “optionality” and how they want more of it. But you don’t need an MBA to explain yourself by saying you’re…

When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could have, would have, and should have done!”

They’re like fish: you just gotta catch them.

Explores Steve Jobs thoughts on creativity and how we need to synthesize knowledge across time and disciplines in order to create and innovate.

This article explores James Webb Young's book A Technique for Producing Ideas, which has shaped how we view idea formation since the 1940s.

Any creator of anything knows this feeling:

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“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.” – Abraham Flexner The best opportunities are the ones you never expected. They’re serendipitous. Serendipity is a state of mind. Serendipity births unexpected opportunities which fuel progress and push us in fruitful

To make a living as a creator, you only need 100 true fans, not 1,000. There's four necessary components necessary to make a living off a smaller base of true fans: premium content and community; results and transformation; accountability; and recognition, access, and status.

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