Non-fiction
Press Play
How music has led movements, built community and helped people find who they are, with stories from Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Kendrick Lamar and more.
Start here if you want to move people, not just inform them.
Four books · Fiction and non-fiction
Complex ideas, made easy to act on.
Two guides and two novels about finding your voice and using it. Each book takes something complex out of my head and turns it into something you can use, whether it arrives as a guide or as a story.
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Which book fits what you're working on, the one idea from each to use this week, and where to get every edition.
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What ties them together
Four books about finding your voice and using it.
Two guides and two novels. In each one, someone has something to say, and a schedule, a job or a whole system that makes it hard to say it.
Make room
Clear the time and focus to create, without burning out.
The Underrated Art of Creative Living
Find your voice
Work out what you have to say when everything around you rewards staying quiet.
Toffy's Divide · Musta's Mixtape
Move people
Use music and stories to change how people feel, and then what they do.
Press Play · Musta's Mixtape
The books
Pick the one that fits what you're working on.
[Toffy's Divide cover]
Novel
Toffy's Divide
Toffy, a rising engineer at the megacorporation that watches over J City, feels the pull to write his story, whatever it costs.
Read it after Musta's Mixtape, or start here for the main story.
Novel · Prequel to Toffy's Divide
Musta's Mixtape
A media-tech executive in J City loses everything, lands in Low Town, and joins underground creatives who fight back with music.
Start here if you'd rather meet the ideas inside a story.
[Underrated Art cover]
Non-fiction · Free
The Underrated Art of Creative Living
7 strategies to create time, find focus and build creativity without burning out.
Start here if you're stretched thin and want room to create again.
Free · The Reading Map
Read the right book first.
- A short guide to which book fits what you're working on right now
- The one idea from each book you can use this week
- Links to every edition: print, ebook and audiobook
- Bonus: Hit Record, a 7-day course on getting your own expertise out of your head and into the world
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Coming next · Book 5
The Recording Artist
A book about staying flexible and doing purposeful work deeper into the automation era. It grows out of my Practice Ground podcast conversations, and every chapter ends with practical steps.
● Its call to action is the same as my free course: hit record.
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About Nifemi
I'm an engineer turned strategist and the founder of NapoRepublic, where I help experts and technical founders turn what they know into pipeline. I also host the Practice Ground podcast and write a letter every Saturday. The books are where I practise what I teach: take the complex idea, and make it easy to act on.