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Advertising is Obsolete
And we'd be much better off without it.
Jul 15, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 12 — Early days in the advertising-industrial complex, why nobody wants to pay for writing online, and why most conferences are so…
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 12 — Wired, Tired, Fired
Apr 13, 2023 • Bowen Dwelle
Inspiration from Dec 2022
Corinna Cohn, Connor Beaton, Alexander Bard, Bill Maeda, Shana James, Zoë Kors, Juliet Allen, Chris Ryan, Wilfred Reilly, Phil Stutz, David Katznelson…
Dec 20, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
Sep 2, 2023
What I'm Reading — April 2023
How Rick Rubin lost 130lbs, Jaron Lanier, Amy Jay, Sarah Fay, Holly Whitaker, Toni Bentley, Daniel Duane, Lyle McKeany, Soaring Twenties, Minda Lane…
Apr 29, 2023 • Bowen Dwelle
I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
Jun 10, 2023 • Andy Johns and Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 17 — Learning that I didn't have to do it all myself
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 17 — Joining Up
May 18, 2023
"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
May 20, 2023 • Bowen Dwelle and Lyle McKeany
E11 / Generative Action with Fernando Desouches
Listen now (45 mins) | The New Macho, the limitations of progressive masculinity, sustainability in marketing, leading through service, generative…
Nov 28, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
Nov 26, 2022 • Bowen Dwelle
The Keys to Building Real Community
Think of the 🤍 button as "would you recommend this to a friend?"
Feb 22, 2023 • Bowen Dwelle
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