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Steven Pressfield Turns Self-Discipline Into a Two-Person Job

Dave Pell Has Been Selling Shirts Off His Newsletter for Almost a Decade

Panic Gave Playdate Customers Their Tariff Money Back Anyway

A $90,000 Kickstarter Built the Bookstore Romance Needed

AI Search Is Changing What a YouTube Sponsorship Deal Is Worth

A Reader-Crowdsourced Guide to Owning Your Media Hides a Short List Worth Keeping

Rands Ran the Numbers on His Own Archive. Half of It Landed With Nothing.

Scott Bryan Rebuilds His TV Newsletter Around Reader Needs

Has the Creator Window Closed? (Or, what we can learn about the creator economy from knitting.)

Kate McKean Says Stop Writing to Please Your Agent

The Creator Economy Just Stopped Rewarding the Biggest Audience

There’s No Money in New Music. The New Cue Covers It Anyway.

What wanting it more actually costs you

A coding educator’s book income went from rent money to zero in two years

Why an Indie Bookstore Owner Doesn’t Want Your Data

Ninety percent of podcast listening is still listening

Nick Gray Counted His Website Traffic. Humans Were 1 in 215.

Hollywood’s AI Actress Stumbled Through Her First Live Interview

It took $3.75 and no ID check to hijack a real band’s Spotify page

Marc Elias built his own publishing stack so nobody could switch him off

The creators topping this new ranking aren’t the biggest ones

Before you publish, know your defamation risk

Steven Pressfield’s first agent told him 427 minus one equals zero

Every freelancer marketing strategy, ranked and sortable by where you actually are

The barter agreement behind eighteen years of A Working Library

James Clear on the business behind Atomic Habits

Publishers took the AI settlement money and didn’t pass it down

A biographer on why Alice Coltrane’s moment took this long

The people who arbitraged their traffic are done

One long video a week, for years, from a stone cabin in the Alps

A literary agent on the writer you can’t stop measuring yourself against

A Belfast punk band turned a protest song around in four days

How Client Portal got started, from the person who built it

Netflix, Sony, and A24 are all bidding on Letterboxd

You keep redesigning the routine instead of running it