…. a good place to start would be Jesse Thorn’s Make Your Thing, a lecture he’s been giving for a couple years now. If you’re not familiar with Jesse Thorn, he started out as a lowly podcaster, producing The Sound of Young America, a interview-show with culturemakers, from his bedroom. Now, TSOYA has morphed into Bullseye, a nationally distributed public radio show, and Jesse sits on top of a vast podcasting empire, housed at maximumfun.org.

Jesse has now done the public the service of publishing the body of his Make Your Thing lecture. If you’ve ever had an idea, and needed help turning it into a thing, read it. The advice most directly has to do with building an online thing, like podcast networks, but could be transferred to making offline things to, like a food truck. If yr an adult ever becomes a thing, I’ll partly have Jesse Thorn to thank.

-Henry Goldman