Patrick Pape

Product owner, Germanofil, Bayern München

[Marc Schack @marcschack]

Jeg synes egentlig, at artikler som denne i udgangspunktet er gavnlige, men der er en del mangler, fejl og misforståelser, som er problematiske. Det gælder navnlig for så vidt angår forklaringer omkring bombningerne af Gaza og antallet af døde/sårede (1/13)

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Alright fine, here are my 29 slides explaining Tenet

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@KraulDR @ThomasLoftDR @TommyBechmann

[Joachim Saxtorph @JoachimSaxtorph]

Som udlandsredaktør på TV 2 er jeg den seneste tid ofte blevet mødt med kritik af, at vi ikke viser, hvad der sker i Gazastriben, og at vi ikke fortæller palæstinensernes historie. Den kritik har jeg ikke kunnet genkende, så derfor lavede jeg i dag en optælling. 🧵 #dkmedier

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often.

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs.

At the beginning you could see student "Maggie Rogers" drenched with the absolute terror of sharing this with him.

Pharrell is there just trying to keep his excitement in.

The guy couldn’t wait to tell her this song is the bee’s knees.

After he listened to a song called “Alaska”, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”

24 hours later, someone posted the clip to Reddit.

It blew up and the rest is history. Grammy nominated, millions of followers etc.

And Maggie responded to the Reddit thread (i'll share screenshot in the next tweet).

This story I find so cool because it inspires other artists to share what they got.

We all can all connect with the fear of showing our work. It ain't easy.

And to have a unique POV like Maggie. Easy to copy, harder to have something unique.

I’ve got a bunch of designs, creations that have never seen the light of day.

This video inspires me to publish more.

My point of sharing this video:

Publish your art anonymously.

Or publish your art proudly as yourself. Bonus points if it's one of a kind work.

But publish your darn art.

This is your new week's energy.

This is your 2024 energy.

Go get 'em.

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If you enjoyed this, go listen to some Maggie Rogers. And thank you to Pharrell for being so supportive to an up and comer.

And go follow me for more stories like this @gregisenberg, so you get more of it in your feed

I share stories about internet communities, free startup ideas and more. (link in bio for more info about me)

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it:

Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded.

“And so,” Damon said,

“We wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ and that part that Robin [Williams] eventually took—we called it ‘the Harvey Keitel part.’”

“Ben [Affleck] and I wrote the movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors…But we knew [we needed] a big-name actor who could get us some money because Ben and I were worth nothing.

And so we wrote ‘the Harvey Keitel part’ really open-ended. So we could adjust it: if Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington wanted to come in and play it—we could make that character from Roxbury [a neighborhood in Boston], and we could explore the historic racial tension in Boston. If Meryl Streep took the part—instead of a father-son relationship, we could make it a mother-son relationship.

So we really left it open-ended because we wanted to cast as wide a net as possible because we were just trying to get the movie made.”

“And then once we got Robin to sign up to do it, that’s really what got us a green light to make it…He changed our lives.”

Takeaway 1:

In one of my favorite talks, "Runnin' Down A Dream," the venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains that while studying the career trajectories of three of his heroes—the restauranteur Danny Meyer, the coach Bobby Knight, and the musician Bob Dylan—he noticed a pattern:

They studied the career trajectories of the icons in their respective industries. Like Damon, they studied how others successfully got their foot in the door then climbed to top of their profession. And then, they took similar steps towards doing the same.

Coincidentally, Tarantino did this too. He made scrap books for each of his favorite filmmakers: Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, and Martin Scorsese. "I was like a film historian," Tarantino said. "I was obsessed with studying how they did it, the evolution of their careers."

"Greatness isn't random," as Gurley puts it. Instead, it's usually a predictable step along a studied path of strategically modified emulation and, of course, determination.

Takeaway 2:

In the clip above, Damon goes on to explain that, not only did Robin Williams sign on to be in "Good Will Hunting," he also went off script and improvised one of the most iconic lines ("Son of a bitch, he stole my line") in the movie.

It reminded me of something Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull writes in his book, Creativity. Inc.:

"Getting the right people is more important than getting the right idea…If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better."

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“Bob Dylan said, 'I'm a musical expeditionary.' I looked up 'expeditionary'—it's to travel for scientific research or exploration. And that's what Dylan did...For hours upon hours upon hours, he studied what other artists did. He was a mimic. He was studying, studying, studying.” — Bill Gurley

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[yzyupdates @yzyupdates]

25 of the best songs sampled and produced by Kanye West: a thread 💿

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

So what's the story behind this map that's been circulating online for years and pops up every time there's a debate about #Israel and #Palestine?

Is it telling the truth?

Is it fake?

Let's uncover the real story: 👇

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@Lise_Toft Kæmpe fortjent👏👏👏

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@KraulDR @ThomasLoftDR Den seneste tyske Ballon D’or, Matthias Sammer, må næsten være automatisk kvalificeret til en podieplads

[Christian Heebøll @ChristianHeeb]

Jeg deltog forleden i OVERSKUD på @radio4dk 🎙 Fokus var på vores nye rapport om unges privatøkonomi og forbrug – rigtig god diskussion, og en måde at få serveret rapporten på lyd og i kort form. Lyt med 👂 https://t.co/eXusDAYnCr

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@NicklasDegn @radio4dk 👏👏

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@muminovic88 Svært ikke at rose forsvaret i dag. Upa, De Ligt, Stani og især Davies var formidable

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

@ReimerElster @radio4dk @Tschnn 👏🇩🇪

[Patrick Pape @PatrickPapeP]

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[DFB-Team @DFB_Team]

Wir wollten mit unserer Kapitänsbinde ein Zeichen setzen für Werte, die wir in der Nationalmannschaft leben: Vielfalt und gegenseitiger Respekt. Gemeinsam mit anderen Nationen laut sein. Es geht dabei nicht um eine politische Botschaft: Menschenrechte sind nicht verhandelbar. 1/2

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (left) preparing to take the stage at the Flow Music Festival in Helsinki.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD.

1/11: In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety

[NY Sports Sufferer @Saquon_Gleyber]

This girl had the whole section rooting for her bottle flip