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
Every 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.