Copywriter-turned-brand equity developer and digital agency co-founder Maria Popova's marketing career started 10 years ago as a side hustle from a student dorm room after accidentally landing her first gig. Today, Maria is a noted branding expert based in Rotterdam. She and her team help overachievers create generatio

This interview originally aired in 2014. You can find the show notes here: https://tim.blog/2014/10/21/brain-pickings/ Maria Popova (@brainpicker) is a reader and a writer who writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings, which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materia

#436: Books I've Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen  | Brought to you by Audible. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is

Our guest today is Maria Popova: a writer, blogger, and critic living Brooklyn, NY.  She is best known for Brainpickings.org, which features her writing on culture, books, and many other subjects. Brain Pickings is seen by millions of readers every month. Maria’s describes her work as  a human-powered discovery engine

Maria Popova, avid reader, writer hunter-gatherer, and curious mind-at-large joins James today on The James Altucher Show. James tells her he reads only one blog religiously and it's Maria's blog Brain Pickings.org. It started as an e-mail to a few friends with a couple of links to things that interested her. They forw