ari was the best boss i ever had. I was working in his movie studio. my first real job. nobody in hollywood would touch us. i dig up the old bbc house of cards, fall in love with it, get the rights, spam him the remake idea for a year. nothing. not even a no. just nothing. one

File this in unusual book recs… this de Gaulle biography is one of the best books on leadership there is. Far above all the commercial self help stuff. My top three take aways: 1. De Gaulle seems crazy and ridiculous to most until he becomes a fact 2. He develops his worldview

A well thought out setup in a narrative will unlock boundless ideas by itself, as if by magic.

Germany is continuing on its path towards self destruction. Perhaps this Adorno quote explains such bizarre lack of elite self awareness: "A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."

We didn’t know Diane Keaton was our neighbor until Covid. She had this ancient dog she would walk very slowly at the end of every day and the kids would walk with her and she’d tell them stories of what movie star life was like. An ineffably cool queen of cinema.

Death match 2030: Ai slop vs influencer global monoculture.

True opponents will give rise to boundless courage inside you

Making kids learn things by heart going to make a comeback. What’s old will be new again

I don’t understand why people don’t just give their kids flip phones instead of iphones if they need to reach them. It’s not hard

Only problem is hypnotized people don’t want or consume much

This will get distilled down to simple hypnosis streams of incoherent lights and sound. Interrupted for commercial breaks.

To hate in the name of the good is an impossible moral position.

Jacques Maritain wrote this gem on Aquinas and the problem evil which is… the absence of good.

Here’s a neat trick. A thriller is consequences before causes. Gets people’s deep attention every time.

Learned today that chagpt considers the use of the filler “like” an indication of the speaker’s low status.