Social Media Won't Love You Back

All in on social media? Think Again

Zadie Smith's 10 Rules for Writers

A Manifesto, Not a Manual

Miles Davis: The Art of Pissing People Off

Five counterintuitive strategies for staying creatively alive

Margaret Atwood's 10 Brutal Rules for Writing

1. Your readers don't care about your feelings.

Distal Thinking: Why Being Too Early Kills Creative Careers

How Elon Musk Stole The Future

Figure-Ground Reversal

Your problem isn't your problem.

Splitting: Break Down to Break Through

The creative thinking skill hiding in plain sight

What do the iPhone, gravity, and Velcro have in common?

Integration — and how it'll change the way you create

The Creative Process of a Mad Man

Inside the creative process that sold billions.

Make America Literate Again

Kurt Vonnegut on writing with style

Travel Should Change You

Anthony Bourdain on the joys (and pains) of travel.

Hunter S. Thompson on the Meaning of Life

The letter that changed my life.

Van Gogh Died a Failure

A quick lesson about success.