Read or Die a Slave

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Is the Medium Really the Message? Notes and reflections on McLuhan For Beginners. 📚 Buy this book: Marshall McLuhan for Beginners If you use my links to buy your books, I’ll get a kick back from Amazon, Jeff Bezos will make a little less money, and it won’t cost you a cent. 🤫 ------------------------------ This episode is available as podcast and video (on Substack & YouTube .) Get full access t...

If you’re listening to this in the podcast feed, I recommend going to Substack and watching the video. Here are the books: * How the World Ran Out of Everything Peter S. Goodman * The Lost City of the Monkey God Douglas Preston * 1Q84 Haruki Murkami * Small Giants Bo Burlingham * The Smoking Diaries Simon Gray * Homogenic Emily Mackay * Pretty Hate Machine Daphne Carr * 69 Love Songs LD Beghtol *...

My notes and reflections to “How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably with Steph Smith” on David Perrell’s How I Write Podcast. Source: Full notes and quotes available for paying supporters. Get full access to Read or Die A Slave at readordieaslave.substack.com/subscribe

Every month, my bank account sadly, whispers the same question: Is this the month your dreams drown? Refrigerator magnets and YouTube gurus will tell you to follow your passion and you'll never work a day in your life. But they fail to mention what it looks like when you don't get paid. That's the reality of pursuing creative endeavors: conflict. And conflict only increases each month driven by th...

It's time to penetrate deep into the creative process. These are my extensive excavation notes on Rick Rubin's book, which is more meditative than instructive; more philosophic than analytic; more silent than deadly. It's the kind of book you pull off the shelf when you've hit a creative block so that Rick Rubin can whisper the names of his favorite fruit into your ear. The Creative Act Steven Pre...

Punk rock was never as punk rock as jazz. It was a middle finger and a damn good time. But jazz is intimidating (and sometimes pretentious in modern times) we need bridge or maybe just a cracked window so we can here those sweet sweet horns. Jazz is cool, ya dig? How To Listen To Jazz The Honest Broker (Ted’s Substack) Don’t forget to go subscribe to my deconstructionist fiction project: The Thing...

It’s finally time for fiction, for murder, for mystery, for butler’s and brandy…and lots of dead bodies. I put my glasses on for this. Maybe afterwards you can tell me why the candlestick is in the conservatory. Why the hell there’s a noose in the dining room. I’m starting to think this isn’s a dinner party. And Then There Were None The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroy...

The ladies loved Benjamin Franklin. Bet you didn't know that. I guess he didn't always look like the Quaker Oats mascot. He was a man who did more that one life should be able to hold. And he refused to be defined, and was often shit on for not being reactionary & quickly choosing sides. We could sure use more Ben Franklins today...can we at least... Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Dive into t...

Okay, we need to talk about Kevin...I mean Seth Godin's short book The Dip , let's talk about the concept of "the dip," and let's talk about how I am a dip who continually let's his fragile ego crap on getting decent work done. Screw Kevin. The Dip - Seth Godin Ethan Hawke TEDTalk Dive into the archive by checking out the complete list of books I’ve discussed on the show. Don’t forget to go subscr...