21 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
French entrepreneur who co-founded Michelin with his brother Edouard — and whose marketing genius created the Michelin Guide as a strategy to encourage more driving (and thus more tire wear) — inventing content marketing a century before the term existed.
British-American fashion editor who has served as Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue since 1988 — transforming it from a declining magazine into the world's most powerful fashion publication — through decisive taste-making, uncompromising standards, and a talent for identifying and supporting designers at critical moments.
American publisher, editor, and art director who has championed underground and alternative comics and visionary art — founding PictureBox publishing and curating exhibitions — bringing marginalized visionary artists to critical attention.
American entrepreneur and product leader who compiled The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — a crowd-sourced synthesis of Naval's tweets, podcasts, and interviews — making Naval's wisdom accessible in book form.
American men's magazine founded in 1933 — which published major literary nonfiction including Tom Wolfe's Noyce essay, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, and others — and which served as a primary venue for New Journalism's most important work.
British publishing magnate who built Dennis Publishing into a major media company (Maxim, The Week, MacUser) from nothing — and who wrote How to Get Rich — a brutally honest account of what wealth-building actually requires (sacrifice, obsession, giving up everything else) and what wealth is actually worth (less than you think).
American journalist and politician who co-founded the New York Times in 1851 and served as its first editor, establishing its moderate, factual tone.
American journalist and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc. who co-authored Sam Walton's autobiography Made in America.
German-American publisher who founded Pantheon Books — the press that published the English-language Collected Works of C.G. Jung, the Bollingen Series, and many major Jungian texts — and who earlier published Kafka, Werfel, and Trakl in Germany.
CEO of The New York Times Company since 2020, who has overseen the newspaper's growth from 4 million to over 10 million digital subscribers and the acquisition of The Athletic and Wordle.
American psychiatrist and Jungian analyst who co-runs Chiron Publications — a major Jungian publishing house — contributing to the availability of Jungian texts and the dissemination of analytical psychology.
American writer and editor who created the Whole Earth Catalog — the information bible of the 1960s counterculture — and has been a consistently original voice on technology, ecology, and long-term thinking.
Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie's San Francisco newsletter and subscription publishing platform — enabling writers to build paid subscriber businesses directly — a key enabler of the creator economy and the newsletter renaissance.
American author whose debut memoir I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell documented his wild, irresponsible young male behavior and became a New York Times bestseller — and who subsequently underwent significant personal transformation and pivoted to book publishing entrepreneurship with Scribe Media.
American fashion and culture magazine founded in 1892 — transformed into the world's most powerful fashion publication by Anna Wintour beginning in 1988 — serving as the definitive arbiter of fashion trends and launching the careers of designers and photographers.
Zupagrafika is a Polish design studio known for publishing Eastern Blocks and other documents of Eastern European Modernist and Brutalist architecture.
Benjamin Franklin's annual almanac (published 1732-1758) under the pseudonym 'Poor Richard Saunders' — a combination of practical information and memorable aphorisms that made Franklin famous throughout the colonies.
Stripe's publishing imprint — producing carefully curated books on technology, economics, and progress that reflect Stripe's intellectual values and commitment to 'increasing the GDP of the internet.'
The organization founded by Alice Bailey (originally as Lucifer Publishing Company, 1922) to publish her writings and promote her Theosophical spiritual teachings — with consultative status at the United Nations and a meditation room at UN headquarters.
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele — creators of The Tatler (1709) and The Spectator (1711-12), the periodical essays that invented the modern English essay form and created the 'public sphere.'
Editor at Stripe Press — part of the team that has made Stripe Press one of the most intellectually influential small publishers in the technology industry.