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Supply, Demand, and Memes. Lots of Memes.

Some things go unnoticed when they work. Non-fiction writing enters this category too.

Networking is painful, and I’m suspicious of anyone who claims to enjoy it. Unfortunately for me, networking is effective.

“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?”

From the documentary Under Great White Northern Lights. Jack White of the White Stripes talks about inspiration and constrictions to force creativity.

Pricing is one of the most powerful yet under-appreciated levers in business. Good pricing can increase LTV, make businesses thrive, change brand perception.

4 Headline Writing Tips From the Father of Modern Advertising

Your single resource for DAOs, including a directory, reading list, and more.

How do you find time to learn in a busy schedule? Here are four strategies I use to find time between work and family life.

A lesson from photography to the world of note-taking.

Once I overcame a fear of being honest, my content fortunes changed forever Once I overcame a fear of being honest, my content fortunes changed forever

If you sell your time as the measure of the work you do, the work is over when the shift ends. Clock in, clock out. If you sell your output as the measure of the work, your work is over when the in…

The most liberating aspect for me of writing emails rather than tweets is the natural limit on topics I might be tempted to have a take on. When I was primarily writing tweets, I could easily involve myself in a dozen topics in a day. HERE'S A TAKE, THERE'S A TAKE, TAKE THAT! With email, it's a sliver of that. But it goes even deeper t...

A place for uncomfortable, unlikely, and unacceptable ideas.

The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to refine them. The Paradox of Creativity: Your

I read Jurassic Park for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Part of the action felt repetitive, and I had a hard time placing events in space, but aside from that, I’m happy I read it. Michael Crichton, the book’s author, once described the act of writing and the role of the editor in an old interview as follows:

Making something social destroys the truth of it because social groups need consensus to survive—otherwise they fight and can’t get along—and consensus is all about compromise, not truth-seeking. Science—at least the natural sciences—was this unique discipline where you could have an individual truth-seeking on behalf of the rest of society. Other individuals verify that they did, indeed, have the best current model of how reality works, and then that could be spread out through inventions to the rest of society. More

Watch on YouTube   Something that has always fascinated me is the concept of a Polymath or Renaissance Man, or a person who has many talents and knowledge in multiple domains. One of the modern day polymaths I’ve learned the most from is Josh Waitzkin. When it comes to touching excellence in multiple domains Josh... Read More

Don’t confuse the word “marketing” with advertising, announcing, spamming, or giving away branded crap.

Six Spokes Theory shows that we can’t neglect important areas of life if we want to live optimally. This requires making tough choices

On productivity and visual storytelling

"Get Back" shows what the creative process really looks like. Also: Jack leaves Twitter, why good moms are the worst audience members, superhero movies, how doxxing is weird, and more.

Lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb. They want the job title without the work. "Forget about being a Writer," says novelist Ann Packer.

One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for the more superficial knowledge, there are just too many layers in a professional codebase that it’s impossible to grok it immediately.

There’s a profound moment in Episode V of Star Wars in the midst of Luke Skywalker’s jedi training. After trying to get his ship out of the water with the force, Luke gives up (“I…

A summary of Paul Graham’s 200+ essays. This is an introduction to his ideas on startups, writing, society, decision-making and more.

Sites and apps for a day in my life

Coda doc by Jeremy Caplan

Here are John Maeda’s ten laws of and three keys to simplicity. Ten laws Reduce The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Organize Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. Time Savings in time feel like simplicity.