Many creative conversations are more ethereal and emotional. What a work references, what it feels like to experience it.

In this week’s episode of New Creative Era, we do the opposite and deal strictly with the numbers. How much does it cost to print a book, to run a community, to make and produce work? How much does someone make? How do those economics actually work out?

Josh and Yancey walk through the economic structures of two of their own projects: Do Not Research and the Dark Forest Collective.

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