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Rob Bell • Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

The biggest impact of someone like Casey unbundling himself from The Vox is that he is now an entrepreneur with a product called Casey. His beachhead may very well be a paid newsletter (it’s very good by the way) but the newsletter is just one SKU. Maybe the SKU he cares most about. Maybe even the SKU that makes him the most money. But it doesn’t h... See more

Hunter Walk • Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers (And That’s Fine): The Multi-SKU…

Good Americans were good consumers and (so it seemed) good Christians. This nascent culture of acquisitiveness fixed in people’s minds the connection between America’s fortunes and their own spending power.

Kate Bowler • Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

Some creative professionals can get by without even having to sell anything in particular to their 1,000 True Fans. Maria Popova, for example, makes a living publishing essays on literature, art, and science on her site, the Marginalian. Most of Popova’s income comes from asking fans to help support her work directly, without expecting anything ext... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

George Saunders's Advice to Graduates

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Russell H. Conwell (1843–1925), Baptist minister and lawyer, became a prophet of the gospel of wealth with his famous sermon, “Acres of Diamonds.” The sermon, preached some 6,000 times, promised listeners that wealth lay within any American’s grasp, if they would only accept their Christian duty to work hard and see God’s hand through the workings

Kate Bowler • Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

Declines in enrollment are life-threatening for most universities, as tuition is the primary source of revenue for most universities. Edmit, a college planning tool for parents and high school seniors, examined financial trends at 937 private universities. The company conservatively estimated the Covid-19 impact as tuition losses of 10 percent in 2... See more

Mikal Khoso • Trajectory #17: The End of University Inc

The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.

Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

The Six-Figure Author Business: A Case Study

Matthew J Holmes

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