It’s recently dawned on me that I’ve spent most of my life working on the same problem: how to get creative people more power. I haven’t known this is what I’ve been doing. I’ve just been doing what seems like the right thing to do.| Yancey Strickler
Hello friends new and old. After the first two weeks of a creative listening tour, a string of thoughts about the state of the creative internet on a Monday morning. A new book that teaches you how to see This past week Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, a book| Yancey Strickler
No AI, no lengthy edits, just a single-shot on a Sunday morning. In a flow state with the void I’ve been in LA this week, an experience that always has me staring into the void. In LA you’re on an island physically and mentally. A deep gaze inward,| Yancey Strickler
The other day I found myself having lunch with a well-known musician and book editor. They were talking about the nature of their work and how they decided what to do and not to do. I listened for a while before I finally spoke. “I feel like I haven’t| Yancey Strickler
It’s hard to grasp how uncertain the present feels until you’re in it. Looking back, we compress complex stories into simple narratives with clear outcomes. One of the first things you learn about JFK, for example, is that he was assassinated. But for people alive then,| Yancey Strickler
Time moves at different speeds depending on your creative practice. As a filmmaker your projects move across many years, each second of the final outcome agonizingly negotiated and constructed. As an author, your work unfolds over years — from the long process of writing to the journey of publishing. As| Yancey Strickler
It's 6:30pm on a Monday and I'm standing off-stage waiting for someone to call my name. A small microphone hugs my face, held up by bendable metal wrapped around my left ear. A wire snakes down my back before tucking into the waist of my pants. "Our next speaker,| Yancey Strickler