Charlie Jane Anders wrote about Problem Patterns, a Belfast punk band who posted a protest song called Bodies four days after the anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland. Riots June 9 to 11, song out June 15, proceeds given away. Cancelled…
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→ How Client Portal got started, from the person who built it
Laura Elizabeth built Client Portal, a small software product, and still runs it. She went on a Dutch podcast in English to tell the origin story. We use this tool at Johns & Taylor every day, and it’s delightful that…
→ Netflix, Sony, and A24 are all bidding on Letterboxd
Netflix, Sony, A24 and Versant are all bidding for Letterboxd, and this newsletter covers the entertainment business with the numbers attached. Elizabeth Joyce has a counter-plan built on the public benefit corporation model, trying to hold social good and a…
→ You keep redesigning the routine instead of running it
Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes Ness Labs, a newsletter about experimenting your way through creative work, and runs a paid community alongside it. This one arrived in the September 10 edition, written the week she got back from Burning Man and…
→ Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, and Anne Lamott on starting when you’re stuck
How do you choose a project and stay with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up? How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? Tim Ferriss pulled years of his interviews with working writers…
→ The going rate for a paid newsletter is $10 a month
I’m seeing this report cited a lot on social media, but I don’t know this is the right north star for a lot of independent publishers. Figuring out that the median subscription price for paid newsletters is $10 is one…
→ How to fix TV comedy
Everyone who greenlights any kind of creative venture right now—not just the sitcoms Paul Scheer describes in this great essay—is running through this same dilemma right now. The way we used to place bets about investing time and energy into…
→ How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI
“Users, and especially users who are developers have an enormous amount of leverage to control where AI goes. And if those communities of users can coordinate, they can put power back into the hands of the people.”
→ The perimenopausal ability to smell the past
“…there’s something about perimenopause that brings me back to that teenaged girl who loved to sit in her room, or anywhere really, and write poetry, without caring if it’s good or correct. I mean this literally and figuratively, whether it’s…
→ The case for giving yourself an artificial constraint
“One of the more effective ways to force yourself to have better ideas is to create an artificial constraint. For many years, I wrote two articles per week and it would often take me over 20 hours to complete each…
→ Getting found in the age of AI search
Although Kaleigh’s advice is written primarily for business marketers, it’s important for anyone who’s trying to sell anything. And that includes music, books, videos, any creative outlet. Getting found in the age of AI search means understanding who you’re up…
→ Real numbers from a social-media reach experiment
What if you returned to something you used to be an expert at and found the whole world turned upside down? I first met Tara McMullin at a conference in Colorado, where she spoke about the then-novel approach to building…