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finable, unquantifiable thing that made her first two albums, 19 and 21, so transcendently great simply wasn’t there. It took Adele two years longer to get the album to a place where Rubin believed
The best advice I’ve ever got about reading came from a secretive movie producer and talent manager who’d sold more than 100 million albums and done more than $1B in box office returns. He said to me
When I first moved to Austin in 2013, I went out to lunch—fittingly—with a writer named Austin Kleon. I was a longtime fan of his book Steal Like an Artist (his book Keep Going is a new favorite).
[1] Read. Read. Read. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said. As I was putting
Sitting on my desk as I write this is a book I paid $8.25 for nearly twenty years ago. The cover is taped back on. Nearly every page is marked or folded. They have yellowed with age, in some cases
I guess I could try to put into words how much I love this book. I could try to explain how this 84-year-old book about an obscure 16th-century philosopher is uniquely relevant to our times. Or I
I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people
Stop watching cable news, it’s bad for you. Stop filtering the world through social media, it’s a cesspool. Turn off those breaking news alerts on your phone—none of them are as important as you
Media release: https://www.sarniapolice.ca/news/1056/three-teens-arrested-in-distraction-theft/ On April 1, 2026, at approximately 12:41 a.m., police were called to a theft that had just occurred at an Indian Road South convenience store. Three young
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that
Preparation is important. Planning is important. Reflection is important. I mean, I wrote a whole book called, Stillness is the Key, because it’s true. And I was just saying earlier this month that I
We Built an AI Agent That Makes All Our Content. Here's Exactly How. $0 design budget. 30 days. 40+ production assets. One agent. 30 days ago, we launched $SAID with one integration, a handful of
Hey there everyone! Happy Tezos Tuesday :) We have curated a selection of artworks on Objkt for collectors, curators, gallerists, and peers to check out. Here are today's curated selection
Warren Buffett considers the foundation of his multi-billion dollar empire to be a book. At 19 years old, he bought a copy of The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. We don’t know exactly what he
The release window of the Sonic 4 movie has been teased. I also discuss the potential sequel to Clair Obscur Expedition 33, and Lies of P has surpassed another sales milestone. Lies Of P Sales
Two years into writing my latest book, Discipline is Destiny, I hit a wall. There is no word other than “despair” for what I was feeling. Doubt? One always has that. This was deeper. No, this was a
The mainstream media in this country has become the most dishonest, most corrupt, most anti-American institution we have ever seen... and that is saying something, because we have seen a lot. We have
Ok, so I have a secret that I use when I am in a reading rut: I read something really short. I love the feeling of sitting down and finishing a book…in that sitting. I get the whole rush of cracking
I can no longer remember the first heavy metal song I ever listened to, but I assume it was something by Metallica. I can tell you the first album I fell in love with: Brave New World by Iron Maiden.
A brief exploring the design space for applications Hypercore. We had previously published our thesis on Hyperliquid and followed it up with an exploration of how options products could evolve on