World Builders' Guild NewsletterWhether you've been here for 52 minutes or 52 weeks, you, dear World Builder, are the reason this newsletter has found the success it has over the past year of publication.What started as a quick way to put my thoughts...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterSummer 1993. Upstate New York.A young, scientifically-inclined grade-schooler walks into a premiere weekend showing of Jurassic Park.He's read the pre-release promotional book. He amped for the groundbreaking cinematic...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterI guess Gary Vee said it so well it broke the Internet. Sorry for the double email this week.Here's the tweet:To future worlds,Matt VentreIf you received this email from a friend, be sure to subscribe to the World Buil...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterIt's called World Builders' Guild for a reason.We're here to create. Never to destroy. We lift up our fellow builders who toil away at obscure, and lovingly-crafted spaces. They write blogs, they create recipes, they'r...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterHours to go before we roll.Scrambling. I'm scrambling for content. Sweating. I feel nervous. I feel inadequate. I've done this before. It's a game. We're friends. It's no big deal.I've written down the high points, tho...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterThe pale sun burns eternally over the wind-swept desert that blankets half the planet.A night without end chills the remainder of the world to below freezing.There's a brave contingent of life in the band of perpetual...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterVirtual Goods Predate the ZoomersRight around the turn of the last century, as they have for millennia, people made a living selling real estate and found goods.Thing is, all of this stuff was virtual. As in, pixels on...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterThe world is a big casino and you have to know the odds to come out on top.I like to think of my world as consisting of a series of bankrolls: emotional, money, spiritual, energy, time, creativity, attention.You can th...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterMy nostrils are smothered with the scent of mildew and medical tape.Cleats clack on aged cement. Blue enameled steel shudders into place securing the civilian clothes, belongings, trappings of those on the outside. We'...
World Builders' Guild NewsletterUnforgettable stories happen when you introduce an unexpected foreign object to a world.The humans inside the world respond in ways that only humans can. They lose themselves. The primitive ape brain grunts and scratch...