Strange Alchemy
Ernie SchenckStrange Alchemy is a newsletter exploring creativity, emotional intelligence, reinvention, and the psychology of the creator economy in the age of AI.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 326 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Is It Talent That Gets You To The Top, Or Is It Reputational Momentum?
Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hangin' over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
—Paul McCartney
In the movie, “Yesterday”, Jack Malik is a struggling musician. He gets in an accident. When he wakes up, the w...
What Are We Missing When We Write Off The Quiet Ones?
Sammy Fabelman had a lot going against him. Not everything. But a lot. For one thing, he was a runt of a kid. It would have come as no surprise to anyone, if he’d sent away for one of those Charles Atlas bodybuilding programs they were alwa...
The Difference Between Borrowing And Stealing. It's Not What You Think.
Unless you’ve been living in a fallout shelter lo these many decades, you know the Cog commercial. A little metal gear taps a hubcap, the hubcap rolls into a tire, the tire bumps something else and something else and something else, and two...
"I'm Sorry But We Have To Let You Go." How The Creative Mind Moves Past Loss.
This week, in addition to Thursday’s regular post, we’re bringing back one of our most popular essays ever. It hit a nerve three years ago when it first appeared. We’re sorry to say, with AI impacting creative jobs more and more, its messag...
It's A Job. Not A Prison. So Why Do We Stay?
You know the job isn’t working. You’ve known it for months. Maybe longer. The briefs are getting shittier. So are the clients. Worst of all, the thing you came here for, that feeling of making something that matters, you can’t remember the...
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Ernie is an advertising creative director, writer, columnist for "Communications Arts" magazine and the author of "The Houdini Solution: Put Creativity and Innovation To Work by Thinking Inside The Box"
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