Most popular links from the Delightful community
This is an archive of links sent in Delightful, my more-or-less weekly newsletter on creativity, strategy, and other stuff that blows my hair back.
To be honest I didn’t even want to write this intro, I wanted to just have that photo of a curious deer. But the robots were tirelessly insistent that there be something here, lest the other robots be confused and categorize this as an authoritative domain on cervidae. Which would be a good goof. The only way to have special places is to hide them these days, you know.
Alas. We’re here, you and I together, at different times, server requests passing in the night, because we’re looking for something: Inspiration, advice, torn notebook pages from the intrepid internet Shackletons who went snowshoeing through the wintry domains long before, whatever. Regardless, I earnestly hope you find what you’re looking for. Even though, of course, the fun part is the searching, which is delightful and which never ends.
-s.
The Shelves
14 SHELVES · 648 RECORDS
- Creative adviceCraft, taste, and process advice for creative work.79 records
- Strategic thinkingDefining the problem, finding insights, writing the brief, all that.36 records
- Agency futuresHow creative/strategy/media agencies are evolving.17 records
- Writing is powerWriting craft, persuasion, and the influence of prose.46 records
- Brand strategyPositioning, distinctive assets, and brand-building thinking.37 records
- Media shiftsStructural changes in media, platforms, and attention.52 records
- Creative toolsSoftware and utilities and random lil' geegaws that help creative work.49 records
- Reference librariesCollections, archives, and reference material worth bookmarking.36 records
- Research reportsReports, surveys, and studies worth keeping around.26 records
- AI perspectivesPractical AI usage, workflows, the death of original thinking, that kind of stuff.119 records
- Game recommendationsYou will remember to play, won't you?28 records
- Better ResearchMethods, trends, tools and workflows for finding shit out.22 records
- Modern RomanceLove, the lack of love, and being a good human to other humans.56 records
- Better at WorkHow to work better, job insecurities, job and career advice45 records
CORRESPONDENTS
Friends, lovers, and dependably delightful sources
Humanists
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Kottke
A shining bloggy beacon on a hill
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Andy Baio
Co-founder of the XOXO Festival and wonderful link blogger
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Why Is This Interesting
Incredible topics daily, I'm proud to contribute here
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The Culturist
Art, literature, music, and cultural and religious history
Strategists
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Rob Estreitinho
Strategy links and a great community
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Joe Burns
Strategic cold-cuts in a world of lukewarm hot-takes
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Sean Monahan
Normcore, vibe shift, boom boom
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Ben Dietz
A digest of developments
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Anita Schillhorn
Marketing, culture, and societal change
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John Ness
Content strategy, storytelling, and the creative life
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Strands of Genius
Faris and Rosie are the best
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Casey Lewis
An examination of youth culture
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Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick
Dude spends a LOT of time online
Researchers
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Saeideh Bakhshi
OpenAI researcher, writer, and curious person with more questions than answers
Technologists
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BRXND Dispatch
Noah Brier is a smart and generous man
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Lynn Cherny
AI research & tools, narrative & games, esoterica & weird news
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Sean Bonner
Author, Artist, Activist, Cultural Alchemist