Sneak peek of a new (non-book!) project coming soon from Stripe Press! (The website link won’t take you anywhere for now, but that will change in just a few days :D)

I really love non-fussy documentaries that take you behind-the-scenes of various crafts. This series from the @rte about different Irish craft traditions, from Irish lace, to stonecraft, to shoemaking, is so so good:

The team built an insane BFCM city (it’s a real, handcrafted mini-city), and I’m so tickled by the Stripe Press library 🤭

thought y’all might like :)

Cover testing 🤭

Stewart Brand is a rare breed. His m.o. for decades has been getting to the future before the rest of us, particularly with the internet. These days he's focused on maintenance, and today you can preorder his newest work, The Maintenance of Everything from Stripe Press:

soon 🤭

I’ve been thinking for a while that photography is somehow still underrated (and, increasingly, that videos are overrated, but this is purely a personal preference). Looking at old LIFE magazines and feeling vindicated

This year’s Nobel Prize in economics is such a victory for anyone who cares deeply about understanding how and why living standards dramatically improved after the Industrial Revolution. The ability to freely exchange ideas, competition, and openness were and continue to beprerequisites for economic growth. To the ex... Show more

Very excited for Stripe Press to publish THE SCALING ERA by the brilliant Dwarkesh Patel, out today: press.stripe.com/scaling Since we announced this book, the question we’ve gotten most is ‘why now?’

Jumping in now 🤓🤓🤓

One thing I hope we chat about: fiction! I've never been a huge short stories person, but I picked this up for 50 cents at the Chilmark Public Library a few months back and have totally fallen in love with William Trevor. Specifically how he imbues so much depth into very mundane scenes.

Thinking of using this account mostly to surface books I come across… Picked this up from The Strand’s archival collection. It isn’t really a fit for Stripe Press, but it’s a great read if you like extremely detailed financial histories and/or are curious about the early railroad era