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Work, Interrupted: Gut Feelings, Bad Software, Good Weird
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Nov 21
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Change Your Life for $0: 4 Steps to Turn an Idea Into a Real Thing
A guide for creatives, founders, and anyone stuck in idea purgatory
Nov 14
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Working a shift at Brooklyn’s socialist grocery store the day after Mamdani’s win
Pushing carts through Park Slope and talking to the characters of the Coop
Nov 7
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Shedding your skin: Creative cycles from Snake to Horse
What the Chinese zodiac reveals about transformation in 2026
Oct 31
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Kel Rakowski
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Your ideas aren’t blocked—they’re waiting for you to slow down enough to hear them. Here are 5 steps to unlock your next big one.
You’ve been told to think your way through what you should feel (or sleep) your way into
Oct 24
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How a Zine Landed Me My Dream Job—and How You Can Do It Too
Oct 25, 2024
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Doechii Teaches: 7 Lessons on Creativity & Process
Feb 12
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Today I quit Instagram. 2014–2024.
Dec 3, 2024
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Me, You and Everything I Know About Career Pivots in 5 Bullet Points
Feb 21
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LOOK BOOK: Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, New York
What I learned: many knitters are scientists
Oct 20
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The Four Energies of Creation
How obsession, grit, love, and joy power everything you create
Oct 17
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Kel Rakowski
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7 on 7: Ghosts, Girard, and Good Habits
"I feel more pride from in this than I did building a company from zero"
Oct 12
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Opinion-seeking as self-sabotage
writing daily (pen on paper) is my cure
Oct 10
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Kel Rakowski
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Is creativity dead? + The most magnificent monsters on TV
✍️Tardy dispatches.
Sep 29
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Want a Personal Style (and Creative Eye) That Feels Like You? Start Here
Taste and style have zero to do with having money
Sep 24
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The DIY MFA: Building Your Own Database of 150 Texts
7 on 7: Seven things that got me through this week
Sep 21
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Kel Rakowski
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I'm Creating My Own Corner of the Internet (again)
i quit Instagram, then came back...here's what changed
Sep 17
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Kel Rakowski
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7 on 7 - Life as a Type B, SWV, Elizabeth Gilbert's lesbian love addiction
7 things that got me through this week
Sep 14
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This weekly letter is for visionary founders and unconventional thinkers figuring out what’s next. I explore creative reinvention, launching ideas, building community, and the softer side of ambitious work—by strategist and advisor Kel Rakowski.
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