Maria Popova

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maria Popova
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 28, 1984(1984-07-28)
Age	40
Country	Bulgaria
Horoscope	Cancer

Maria Popova Biography

Maria Popova is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 28, 1984 in Bulgaria. Maria Popova was born on the 28th of July 1984 in Bulgaria. Her parents were ethnic Bulgarians as reported by Bruce Feiler for The New York Times, “met as teenage exchange students in Russia… [h]er father… an engineering student who later became an Apple salesman… her mother… studying library science.” In an interview, Popova states that in her childhood she had a grandmother who frequently would read her a library of Encyclopedias. Due to their influence as a grandmother, Popova was exposed to an array of information early on, that fueled her curiosity about the world. In an interview with Geoff Wolinetz of Bundle.com, Popova began her career when she was around eight years old, creating the Bulgarian folk art dolls made of yarn called martenitsas. They were first worn in March the first (Baba Marta Day) when Popova says she sold the dolls on the streets when she was a child. She were selling drinks at the lemonade stands.

Popova has published articles her work for The Atlantic, Wired UK, GOOD, The Huffington Post as well as NiemanLab. Her most well-known work is Brain Pickings, a blog which she started in 2006 with an weekly email that she sent 7 of her acquaintances and, as described in the book of Krista Tippett’s On Being, it is “[n]ow a website, Twitter feed, and weekly digest… cover[ing] a wide variety of cultural topics: history, current events, and images and texts from the past.” It is divided into various sections, and includes images, photos and illustrations, as well as written material.

In 2012, Popova created The Curator’s Code, a project (now suspended) by Popova with input from designer Kelli Anderson. The Curator’s Code is a code of conduct for curators on the web to use. This proposed method is an attempt to codify source attribution on the internet to ensure that the intellectual labor of information discovery is honored. Under the code, the “via” symbol indicates direct discovery, where the “hat tip” symbol indicates an indirect link of discovery.

Maria Popova has received numerous instances of media recognition for her work. In 2012, she was named number 51 of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine. Popova was featured in 30 under 30 by Forbes as one of the most influential individuals in Media and was listed on “The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012 List” by Time magazine. Popova’s work has also been spotlighted and profiled in publications such as The New York Times.

In 2005, when Popova was working in an agency for advertising she observed that coworkers were passing around information from the advertising industry throughout the office to get ideas. But, Popova thought creativity was more likely to be triggered by exposure to information that was not part of the field that one knew about. To stimulate the imagination, she often sent out emails to everyone in the office with five items which had nothing related to advertising, however, they were interesting, meaningful or significant. Due to the popularity of these email messages, Popova felt that there was an “intellectual hunger for that sort of cross-disciplinary curiosity and self- directed learning.”

Maria Popova Net Worth

Maria Popova is one of the richest Writer from Bulgaria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maria Popova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Maria Popova (Bulgarian: Mariia Popova born on July 28, 1984) is a Bulgarian- born American-based author of arts and literary commentary and cultural criticism . She has enjoyed a huge following (as of 2012, she had 3 million views on a page and over one million readers per month) and for both its writing as well as for the graphic style of it. Her most well-known work is by her website, Brain Pickings which is an internet-based publication she has worked to keep advertising-free and contains her thoughts on booksand thoughts that come from philosophy, the arts and culture as well as other topics. Apart from her writing and speaking engagements, she’s been a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow as well as the director of editorial for the social network Lore as well as published articles on behalf of The Atlantic, Wired UK as well as other publications. In 2012, she lived at Brooklyn, New York.

Popova was a graduate of Sofia’s American College of Sofia in Bulgaria in 2003. She moved to at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received an undergraduate degree in communication, however, for a number of years prior until the year 2012 her mother requested that she pursue an MBA. Popova was able to pay for her tuition through four part-time jobs in addition to a full- time college program such as being an advertising rep in the newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian, as an intern for a local journalist and as an employee of an employment-based study position for the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and as an employee of an advertising agency with a small, start-up size located in Philadelphia.

Popova describes returning to Bulgaria in 2008 in interview to the Bulgarian news journal Capital, and how she and a trio of friends organized a conference modeled after the American TED Talks, which they called “TEDxBG”. Popova further describes the outcome of the events—her eventual visa receipt—to Mother Jones: “When the application process lightened up… I moved to LA—which I really resented more than anyone’s ever resented a city in the history of resenting cities. And now I’m finally in New York, and I’m here to stay.” As of 2012, she was living in Brooklyn.

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Is it interesting enough to leave the reader with something – a thought, an idea, a question – after the immediate fulfillment of the self-contained reading or viewing experience? Is it evergreen in a way that makes it just as interesting in a month or a year? Am I able to provide enough additional context – historical background, related past articles, complementary reading or viewing material – or build a pattern around it to make it worth for the reader?

Facts & Trivia

Maria Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bulgaria. Maria Popova celebrates birthday on July 28 of every year.

It doesn’t put the reader’s best interests first – it turns them into a sellable eyeball, and sells that to advertisers. As soon as you begin to treat your stakeholder as a bargaining chip, you’re not interested in broadening their intellectual horizons or bettering their life. I don’t believe in this model of making people into currency. You become accountable to advertisers, rather than your reader.

How does Maria Popova make money?

Popova is far from the only blogger making money from affiliate links. Even big sites like Gawker, Buzzfeed and Slate have dabbled in the practice. But Ms. Popova talks a very big game about how her site is ad-free and why that’s so superior, and she solicits donations on the notion that it’s ad- free.

How does Maria Popova work?

The only way Maria is able to create and curate so many content pieces for her audience is by reading. A lot of reading. In an interview Copyblogger about writing, she said broke down her non-stop consumption process: Long-form reading at the gym, with pens and Post-Its for highlighting tidbits.

Where does Maria Popova live?

Since 2010, she has resided in Brooklyn, New York. She is the creator of “The Universe in Verse”, a large-scale annual celebration of science and the natural world through poetry.

How old is Maria Popova?

37 years (July 28, 1984)

How does Maria Popova take notes?

Around thirty-one minutes into the interview, Popova explains how she takes notes on books: As she reads, she creates an index at the front of the book that lists its most interesting ideas. Every time she encounters a passage relevant to one of these ideas she adds the page to the relevant line in the index.