Kinda Genius
Jeff O'NealKinda Genius is a weekly email with one unforgettable story about creativity, curiosity, or invention plus a selection of links, exercises, and other resources.
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Why "Butt" Was in 50-Foot Electric Letters in the NYC Skyline in 1907.
The glow from the sign was so bright and the letters so enormous that locals started to ask questions. An electric sign with 50-foot-high letters wasn’t something you saw every day in 1907, even in New York City. And while the sign was new...
Toni Morrison and The "Take a Dozen" Theory
This edition of Kinda Genius is broken into two sections: The Main Event (a longer story or idea) and Picks & Links, which is just what it sounds like.
The Main Event: Toni Morrison and The “Take a Dozen” Theory
When I was 19, I went to s...
The Kinda Genius Micro-MBA: 11 Books That Changed How I Think
I used to think success was just talent × effort × time. That’s it. Then I started building Book Riot and realized I misunderstood what making something ambitious really takes.
I turned to books for a quasi self-directed MBA, covering fin...
Broccoli Rabe
Note: Ok, after some feet-wetting early posts, now we are down to it. This is the kind of thing I really wanted this newsletter to be about. 700-1000ish word stories of little moments of genius. Will try to get in a streak of these over the...
"There Has Never Been a Better Time to Explore"
Two passages today from a recent book I loved. Ingrained: The Making of Craftsman by Callum Robinson is about wood-working, yes. It is also an homage to craft, a business book, a family memoir, a love-story, and a creative manifesto. It is...
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CEO & co-founder, BookRiot.com. My Substack is called Kinda Genius, and it's a celebration of human ingenuity--in all its forms. I think you'll like it.
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