Why is no-one talking about how most movies are just made up in people’s brains?!
Sad. The person typing this has finally given up on the dream of eternal youth and is scaling back his dream of More Space to Default.
Popped up to say hi then went back down again
Hola
I’ve lived around the ocean my whole life and I’ve never seen the ocean as angry and ferocious as I have at Todos santos, Baja California Sur, this week.
In so many ways existing on earth has never been better with threat of war or famine never being lower for so many of us. But for 339 million people in 2023 things aren’t so rosy. The New Humanitarian writes: Why these 10 humanitarian crises demand your attention now.
Currently reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚
Rick Rubin is the guest on episode 649 of the Tim Ferris show and this is one of those podcasts you really want to listen to.
“Look for what you notice that no-one else sees.”
Robert Henri’s quote is quoted and man, this is sitting with me all day every day:
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable”
This is a good listen.
Somehow both our girls have learned to pose like this and I have no idea how, or why, or where it’s from.
In 1978, neurologist Dr. James Austin proposed that there are 4 types of luck:
(1) Blind Luck (2) Luck from Motion (3) Luck from Awareness (4) Luck from Uniqueness
Passport Photos is a very fun and cool photo series by Max Siedentopf.
Steve Jobs on how asking for help is a superpower:
“I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help. I called up Bill Hewlett (founder of HP) when I was 12 years old. He answered the phone himself. I told him I wanted to build a frequency counter. I asked if he had any spare parts I could have. He laughed. He gave me the parts. And he gave me a summer job at HP working on the assembly line putting together frequency counters. I have never found anyone who said no, or hung up the phone. I just ask. Most people never pick up the phone and call. And that is what separates the people who do things, versus the people who just dream about them. You have to act.”
Polina Pompliano with 15 People on the Most Important Question They’ve Ever Been Asked.
“Would you do this if you weren’t being paid?”
I’ve never felt more inadequate and stupid as a person whilst reading this essay and list of recommendations for writing good English prose by David Bentley Hart.
My favourite fiction/not-really-not-fiction book of 2022 was Russian Sleeper Cell by Nathan Monk 📚
Reading Publishers Weekly top twenty-five bestseller list is something I’m finding depressing, not because of the content of the list, but the numbers. So few books are being read. Props to Colleen Hoover, someone I’d never heard of before now, for having eight books on that list, it sounds like romance still sells.
It’s been twenty years since Bill Gates expressed his frustration at his own operating system and the team behind it on how hard it was to install Windows Movie Maker and honestly, computers are only slightly more useable today.
Ok then, photorapture it is
