World Builders' Guild NewsletterNobody has ever done this before. June 27th, 1999. San Francisco, California. Two half pipes reach toward the dusk. The lights flip on, flooding the mass of humanity squeezing the structures. They fight to inch their w...

World Builders' Guild NewsletterThe year is 1625. You're lounging in a dim cabaret tucked into the woods outside of Paris. You sip a tannic red and admire the serenity of the area.Two tables over, a noble English gentleman jumps to his feet and raise...

Do you know what color a 7th place ribbon is?It's purple.I know this because I "won" one in a wrestling tournament. I stashed that garbage in my nightstand for years. Not to remind me some idiot thought it was a good idea to hand a 7th place ribbon t...

World Builders' Guild NewsletterCraig Beam is a master storyteller.This may surprise you, but Craig is not an author by trade. He's the former head distiller of Heaven Hill Distillery known for the Elijah Craig and Evan Williams bourbon brands. The B...

World Builders' Guild NewsletterThe Prussians invented "fudging the dice".In the early 1800s, the Prussian military were enthusiasts of a genre of chess-like wargames. They represented a tabletop simulation of military conflict using tokens and compl...

Robert "Bag" Fahey is a 13-time world champion athlete that you've never heard of.Between 1994 and 2014, the Australian won consecutive top honors in an international sport you've never heard of: Real tennis.I know what you're thinking, "But, Serena...

Rebuilding on Scorched Earth"Shovelware."It started in the early 1980s when Atari sensed an opportunity to extract more money from an already ridiculous $3 billion video game industry (that's a little over $8 billion today adjusted for inflation).The...

Active Participation"Create before you consume."I read this a lot on Twitter. It's a useful adage when dialing in the creative process. You open up the potential for all sorts of roadblocks when you over-consume. We've all ended up bin...