Own Your Content
Toolkit: How to Showcase Your Projects
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Toolkit: How to Build a Newsletter List
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career
It’s fair to think, what if you never monetize your website? What if no one reads your blog? What is it all for? We spoke with Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer at Adobe, author of How They Got Here: ...
Toolkit: How to Give Proper Attribution
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Toolkit: How to Write Your About Page
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Jen Hewett on Letting Go of Perfection and Growing Multiple Skills to Enrich Her Creativity
When you have more than one creative craft and different avenues for your freelance business, how do you decide where to put it all? How do you write about yourself or showcase your projects? The ...
Toolkit: How to Keep Your Guest List Inclusive and Diverse
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Toolkit: How to Make a Proper Introduction for Collaboration
This toolkit is a growing library of wisdom that highlights the hurdles of owning your content and building your platform. We not only curate the wisdom from creative leaders and artists, but also ...
Paul Jarvis on Making Your Business Better, Not Bigger
For the last two decades, Paul Jarvis has been building his business differently than what most would attempt: he’s focused on small, not big; better, not bigger; and every detail within his course...
Anita Sarkeesian on Amplifying Your Mission With Storytelling
At a point in your career, you’ll engage with new platforms to amplify your mission. How do you decide when to start a podcast, a blog, or a video series? How will you know it’s working? We spoke...
Luvvie Ajayi on Being Generous With Your Work
As your expertise grows, so does your responsibility to give back. But how do you decide when to work for free or accept lower rates? What does it mean to be generous with your work? And how does a...
Kathryn Finney on the Connection Between Personal Growth and Your Work
Growing your craft and gaining new knowledge is a habit that enriches your work and life. Developing yourself is a consistent practice, an active posture of being self-aware of your bad habits and ...
Heather Meeker on The Basics of Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual property law is a topic that is easy to ignore, yet it’s paramount to have a foundation of understanding so you can protect yourself and your work. It’s a topic that lacks urgency unti...
Maria Popova on Evergreen Ideas and Rethinking the Meaning of Content
To create work that touches people’s lives in ten, a hundred, or a thousand years from now is both a humbling and unexpected reward of one’s effort. But we do not determine whether something is tim...
Jocelyn K. Glei on Ideation and Being Accountable in Your Projects
When inspiration strikes the heart, it’s our role as makers to give it form. Choosing a medium is part of the process and it influences the way we engage with the people we seek to change. What if ...
Grace Bonney on The Art of Thoughtful Emails and Clear Communication in Collaboration
Have you ever received a thoughtful email? Chances are you judged a person’s intentions or character based on how the email sounded. Reaching out to other creatives is a skill that can either clos...
Ryan Merkley on Licensing Creative Work and How Attribution is Gratitude
The Internet created a tidal wave of creativity and knowledge, and left in its wake the conditions for unrestricted sharing—but it didn’t come with a set of rules or principles that the world would...
John Maeda & Kat Holmes on Designing for Inclusiveness
We all feel it—our technology feels like a century ahead of us, while our behaviors are reflective of decades before us. The systemic issues in the lack of inclusiveness in design, tech, and hiring...