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Advertising is Obsolete
And we'd be much better off without it.
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Bowen Dwelle
The Keys to Building Real Community
Think of the 🤍 button as "would you recommend this to a friend?"
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Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 17 — Learning that I didn't have to do it all myself
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 17 — Joining Up
Dreaming up something new in New Orleans
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 19 — OPS is Sexy
How to eat the question when someone asks "What's next?"—or anything else, for that matter.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 21 — Eat the Question
Six Men Writing about Fatherhood
A group exploration of a topic core to every man's experience, whether or not they have children of their own.
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Bowen Dwelle
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Lyle McKeany
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Michael Mohr
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Latham Turner
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Dee Rambeau
, and 
Joshua Doležal
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
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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
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Bowen Dwelle
E08 / Sex is Better Sober with Kenyon Phillips
Listen now (48 mins) | Human animals, addiction, marriage, surprise fatherhood, manhood, masculinity, money, the illusion of security, and getting our…
Chapter 14 — A desperate move, a mistake, and a wreck that made everything worse.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 14 — How to Make an Actual Life Error
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Bowen Dwelle
Learning how to do good magic in Chile
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 20 — Yate in Transito
Acquiring the skills of growth
Change can seem entirely impossible—and, it can be normal, and easy.
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Bowen Dwelle
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