NCE 01 catalogue

Back in February 2025, Josh and I started putting out the New Creative Era podcast. The goal was to have the same conversations we were having in private, but make them public. Especially around how we as creative people navigated our work and thought about the world in a very strange time.

For five months, we posted a weekly episode exploring how we approach what we do. At the end of it, we edited it together into a book called On the Creative Life: Conversations Towards a New Creative Era.

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1. How to create context and release your work (Feb 14, 2025) Building rich context around your creative releases. Apple · Spotify
2. Finding your hook: How to tell the story of your work (Feb 25, 2025) Crafting compelling narratives for your projects. Apple · Spotify
3. How to work with others (Mar 4, 2025) Collaboration dynamics, economics, and breakups. Apple · Spotify
4. How do you decide what platforms to use? (Mar 12, 2025) Choosing where to post your work. Apple · Spotify
5. Labels: creative support structures of the past and future? (Mar 19, 2025) Reimagining labels as tools for liberation. Apple · Spotify
6. How to decide where to invest your creative time (Mar 25, 2025) Prioritizing platforms and creative efforts.Apple · Spotify
7. Creative economic case studies (with actual numbers!) (Apr 1, 2025) Real economics from DNR and Dark Forest Collective. Apple · Spotify
8. Is there such a thing as artist-format fit? (Apr 8, 2025) Finding the right format for your work. Apple · Spotify
9. How to develop a creative career (Apr 15, 2025) Navigating nonlinear paths in creative work. Apple · Spotify
10. What we wish we knew then (Apr 21, 2025) Seven lessons from our creative journeys. Apple · Spotify
11. Seven things we want out of a new creative era (Apr 28, 2025) Our wishlists for a new status quo. Apple · Spotify
12. Why talk about the creative life? (May 13, 2025) Reflecting on why these conversations matter. Apple · Spotify
13. Artist Corporations: new podcast and early traction (Jun 24, 2025) Josh grills Yancey on A-Corps nuts and bolts. Apple · Spotify