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Ted Gioia's avatar

She’s worth $40 billion, and could buy any publishing house in the world. But she decided to publish her novel on Substack. The culture is going indie—and we’re watching it happen in real time.

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Michael Easter's avatar

Cal Newport is on the Two Percent podcast today talking about why modern work is designed to make people miserable.

It all started when we took the word “productivity”—which was used for quantifying outputs of farms and factories—and applied it to knowledge work.

All hits. No skips. I could talk to Cal all day.

Watch it here:

Emily Sundberg's avatar

I didn’t have that many new ideas this summer but then this week happened

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

Emily Rangel's avatar
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Sari Botton's avatar

I’m not judging the notables getting deep-plane neck-and-face-lifts—whatever makes you feel beautiful is fine by me—but their language defending/bordering on promoting it is so similar across the board it makes me wonder whether they’ve been in some way compensated in exchange for being spokespersons for the procedure.

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Been cooking up something goooooood.

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