Research
Learn everything we know.
Books, guides, and our open notebook. All free, all in the open.
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A Few Thoughts
Thirty short thoughts from Dave on mornings, kindness, taking care of yourself, work, people, and when life gets hard.
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Your First Thousand Streams
A simple playbook for independent musicians.
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Your First $20
What streaming actually pays, kept simple. Assume 5,000 streams earns your first $20 on Spotify. No hype, just division.
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Short Bus: The Musical
The kids book. A musical story about the kids on the Short Bus.
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Everything We Know
Our open notebook: everything we have learned, free.
Notes & papers
12 screenplays studied, 10 story frameworks, and what the data says about the greatest films ever made. The unified framework, narrative structure, and a filmmaker's checklist.
The 10 Best Short Films Ever MadePixar and Disney's greatest shorts, ranked by popularity right now, with the films embedded and the story structure that makes each one work.
Best StoriesEvery Pixar film, RENT, and the Disney canon, analyzed. Narrative structures, character archetypes, and a taxonomy of parallels across all three. Written for Pixel.
Understanding MusiciansWhat musicians care about besides music, what they're struggling with, and how to reach them. A field guide for anyone building for artists.
The People to FollowReal founders running real businesses on AI agents, organized by who we should follow most.