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After more than a decade of writing life-changing advice, I know when to move on. Here’s what else I learned

1/ After 10+ years of publishing professional writing at https://t.co/ddc2F89IIV, I have a couple opinions on how to get your stuff read — Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) July 26, 2017 Building your personal bat signal I want to cross-pollinate a tweetstorm on lessons I’ve learned from a decade of professional writing. In a way, it’s a followup […]

(I wrote this essay as the Foreword to the new edition of Seymour Papert’s classic book Mindstorms.)

What made Charles Darwin a great scientific thinker? He followed a golden rule of objectivity. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett and others use the same idea.

A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium mediocre. The food, I opined to my wi…

"On disbelieving atrocities." Written by Arthur Koestler. Originally published on January 9th, 1944.

If someone you're emailing with is making typos and you're not, skipping capitals and you're not, responding to your long, well-written emails with short responses... then you're their bitch.

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products and services by rethinking simplicity.

The internet is a money printer for smart people willing to share their ideas online. It's created two unprecedented opportunities...

Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want

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

Ten strategies and 49 examples of successful buzz making

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.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts

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…

If you don’t give money its purpose, it will end up defining yours.

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.

Our choices reflect and determine who we are.

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.

Explore all the back issues of STRIKE! Magazine.

Tobi Lütke on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.

When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised a…

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

There’s no single formula for making work meaningful — but poor management is a universal obstacle.