Strange Alchemy
Ernie Schenck, John CarstensStrange 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 | 320 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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The Creative Multiverse Is Real.
Courtesy of A24
The quantum world is still very mysterious, still seemingly very powerful, and I’m definitely attracted to the mysterious and the unknown and just the vastness of what my imagination puts on it.
—Van Hunt
A friend...
I Was Curious About Beetles. Big Mistake.
“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin
The thing about curiosity is that it dies easily. Easier than houseplants by a long shot, and I hav...
In Which I Defend a Machine Nobody Misses Except Tom Hanks.
“The writing machine is a kind of a thinking machine.” — Marshall McLuhan
The only person I know of who has continued to champion the typewriter without irony is Tom Hanks, who owns somewhere in the neighborhood of hundreds of them...
Ideas Are Nothing If They're Not Dangerous.
“If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meani...
The Eccentric Creative
Maybe you’ve heard of Doris Duke. Doris was an heiress, a social gadfly in Newport society and in the last years of the Gilded Age, as eccentric a human being as you were likely to find on Bellevue Avenue or maybe anywhere.
While Doris was...
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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"
Writer. Humanist. Chief Creative Officer. In conversation with the machines while they're still listening.
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