KISS Friday - 7 Feb, 2025

Reads from awesome Substack writers

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Feb 07, 2025

Every Friday, I’ll be showcasing some fine works from Substack writers on different topics.

Handpicked by yours truly.

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🚴‍♂️Experience

Uncharted Territories

The Most Important Time in History Is Now

AI is progressing so fast that its researchers are freaking out. It is now routinely more intelligent than humans, and its speed of development is accelerating. New developments from the last few weeks have accelerated it even more. Now, it looks like AIs can be more intelligent than humans in 1-5 years, and intelligent like gods soon after. We’re at th…

5 months ago · 371 likes · 75 comments · Tomas Pueyo

One Brilliant Arc (OBA) Newsletter

Don't Quit on Your Writing Project

Happy Monday, my friends…

5 months ago · 5 likes · 4 comments · One Brilliant Arc (OBA) and Charles Rodriguez

Some Such Whatnot

February Needs to Do Better

It’s February! Here’s hoping it’s happy…

5 months ago · 47 likes · 22 comments · Jennifer Klee

🪁Storytelling

Dr King's Curiosities

Damn you, woman – Waking the Witch

‘Horror Moments’ is a weekly series examining horror-inflected scenes and themes in unexpected places. The ‘moments’ are published weekly on Thursdays, and I share articles on the history of magic, theatre, storytelling, and more on Monday afternoons – don’t forget to subscribe. Catch up with the Kate Bush series…

5 months ago · 19 likes · 9 comments · Rebekah King

the braid

on the roads that connect us, the grief of what cannot be replaced and the enduring light of los angeles

It seemed both impossible and poetic that David Lynch died amidst the fever dream of Los Angeles wildfire while we were all still reeling and in shock…

5 months ago · 64 likes · 13 comments · Rebecca Woolf

Unsupervised

Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Dear reader…

5 months ago · 512 likes · 58 comments · Anna Fusco

🎼Creativity

5AM StoryTalk

In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration): February 2025

“In Search of Beautiful Things (and Creative Inspiration)” is a monthly photograph series by the readers of 5AM StoryTalk and curated by me. It began as an essay here at Substack, in which I detailed a low point in my personal and creative life, post-international move to London and how a daily ritual to look for and photograph one beautiful thing helpe…

5 months ago · 73 likes · 39 comments · Cole Haddon

You've Got Media

The Ups and Quiet Downs of a Creative Life

It sounds like such fun when you’re a teenager, and you proudly state ‘I’m going to be a writer.’ Or maybe a filmmaker, or actor, or painter, or whatever creative thing it is you chose to do…

5 months ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · You've Got Media

Jenny’s Substack - Let's art together

Weaving a spell for you

Sometimes I have words and no drawings. Sometimes I have drawings and no words. And sometimes a picture just comes out of nowhere…and the words that go with it stream out like a spell my body is ca…

5 months ago · 395 likes · 32 comments · Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)

🧲 TL;DR - Top rave

FUTUREStrategies

🔮 MARKETING TRENDS 2025 / Part 1

Hi 👋 I’m Florian Schleicher. This is the FutureStrategies newsletter of FUTURES. Thank you so much for reading along 💚…

5 months ago · 7 likes · Florian Schleicher

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