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Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur whose work supports creative people. He’s the cofounder of Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, Metalabel, Artist Corporations, the Dark Forest Collective, and DFOS (the Dark Forest Operating System). He’s the author of the books This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, On the Creative Life, The Dark Forest Era, and the cohost of the New Creative Era podcast with Joshua Citarella. His career began as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and the Village Voice. He grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia, and lives in New York City.

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The text of a talk I gave remotely for the Sonar Festival in Barcelona this morning. My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about ways we and society are both...

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