On Friday morning, One of the most respected modern Christian thinkers passed away. And I saw this on LinkedIn, from a new founder: we haven’t seen our families in a year and moved 3 times we didn’t take a day off for a very long time, cried a lot, and…

Get this first at joshspilker.substack.com. Are you one of the creators that don’t like their audience any longer? Maybe you’ve bought a course on how to do X, hoping to make money from X, only to then not like X Maybe you thought about being known for X, because your…

What’s ok/not ok to do alone? — Last fall, my friend Travis texted me and asked me to go to a concert. “It’s in April,” he said. That was far away. I was trying to go to Belize for a month, and then to Florida for a month, and then on a cruise. “I don’t know, I’ll…

Except for 1. About Email, Blogging, Twitter, Medium & Substack Notes. — One of the difficulties with online writing is that many of the platforms are impermanent. Think about LiveJournal, Xanga, and Yahoo Answers. All basically gone. Think about Tumblr and Quora. Still around but in drastically different forms. Think about Twitter and Facebook. Lots of confusion and noise. …

It’s time to move on. — This recent New Yorker article about the decline of the English major caught my attention. Take a look at this provocative subhead: Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened? What happened? My thesis: A lack of making real things. I’ll explore that…

And how to keep them — I started a new job this past week. In this role and in previous roles, the current employees always ask a version of the above question. “Fresh eyes.” But do you really have to change jobs to get a fresh perspective? That seems, in the words of what the kids…

Have you seen I, Robot? It’s that Will Smith movie (and short story before it) where the robots look uncanny, become sentient, and start doing weird stuff even though its against their “laws.” Bad graphics aside, you can probably guess how it turns out. It’s that Will Smith movie…

Yes, you need skill to be a great writer. Talent also helps. But it also requires proper promotion. Gone are the days of the hermit genius, waiting for their perfect manifesto to be discovered. The ones that you can think of who may be like that — they prove the…

(Now what will you do with it?) — February is a great month for starting a writing habit. Why? Because it’s so short. Use this to your advantage and start writing. No, it doesn’t have to be your tell-all memoir, the Great American Novel, or even relitigating your crappy 8th-grade poems. A writing habit doesn’t mean what it…