A personal newsletter mixing first-person essays on making music, building small software tools with AI assistance, and solving practical problems for a volunteer-run meditation community. Readers get candid project write-ups with concrete detail on process and decisions.
Website: https://billmoriarty.com/
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
A weekly newsletter that explains one mental model per issue through a detailed historical story, then ties it to creative work. Issues cover topics such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking and the Gestalt law of closure.
Howard Gray's Groove Theory tells in-depth stories about the overlooked, behind-the-scenes ways people and teams made creative work, and what readers can borrow from them. It is mixed with short links and updates on his own projects.
A long-running newsletter and podcast exploring the creative life through surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding and related cultures, with interviews, personal essays and a weekly list of recommended reads and listens. Readers get thoughtful conversation with creators and reflections on making work in a noisy social media era.
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