This week we’ve been catching up with friends and people in our creative community. Each person we’ve talked to has brought up Metalabel. What people appreciate about Metalabel, they tell us, is that it celebrates the small and the unusual. It gives them permission to think| Yancey Strickler
Two wild assertions we can’t 100% back up but pretty sure are true: 1. Art and creative expression have never been more present in society than today. 2. More people listen to, watch, and make creative work than ever before. In a 2023 survey of Americans: * 86% said arts| Yancey Strickler
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 — It’s been a minute since we last talked, so I felt like saying hi. Everything mostly okay with you, I hope? Here’s what’s been going on with me: An expanding, focused life — In many ways my| Yancey Strickler
Last year, a dozen writers (including me) published a book together about how we live online. No publishers, no complex arrangements. But also not quite self-publishing, something better. The project served as a kind of guinea pig for how far a fluid configuration of collaborators could take a project using| Yancey Strickler
We live in a world that wants things now. An urgency culture that continues to increase in pace and demand. But this year I learned there's wisdom in letting things take their time. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is wait and let an idea reveal what it| Yancey Strickler