Mike Stamm

handcrafted calculator #rpnking - friends of awesomeness get it in app store →

[Mike Stamm @RealMikeStamm]

what it looks like: getting a haircut, view from in #Schaffhausen
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@DavidSacks “threaded” >> you need to get the tense right.

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@Ike_Saul this.

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@blueorigin fantastic, congratulations

[Adam Bernstein @ABernNYC]

The corner of my office still holds some mementos from that historic first launch of Starship 🤣

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[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

In real-time with 20FPS stills: Falcon Heavy transits the Moon during its launch of the USSF-52 mission December 28.

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Thank you @ksound22 for writing this helpful article.

An Administrator Has Blocked You From Running This App – How to Fix on a Windows 10 PC

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[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Charlie Munger fans would be able to understand this. A friend has messaged me this morning:

Sadly Charlie has nothing more to add.

[Mike Stamm @RealMikeStamm]

@QVHenkel Curious: How is Elmer FEM dynamic EM modeling nowadays? I worked with it about 12 years ago, started to get some decent results, but had to break off to do other stuff…

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

Point 1:

Stories have defined patterns.

In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.

Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.

Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.

Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.

Point 2:

Vonnegut says,

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”

To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.

Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.

Point 3:

End on a high note.

Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”

The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.

It’s called recency bias.

Lift people up and they will love you.

***

“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.

And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.

[Mark Tenenholtz @marktenenholtz]

“Our center detection model has 95% accuracy”

The results: https://t.co/Lvr2I8Cj7c

[Starbase Surfer @cnunezimages]

I caught the Moon 🤙
Elon, you catch the Booster🚀!
- Image Taken: March 7, 2023

[Mike Stamm @RealMikeStamm]

@AstroMikeMerri 99th percentile SAT, vs 60th percentile SAT - which one likely to better diagnose your problem? (hint; not the 1st)

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@cnunezimages epic photo

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

You forget sometimes how good Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were together. This sketch would be nothing on paper but my word, the execution. Top notch.

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@VonGeisler 😳

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@hugowiz @threadreaderapp unroll

[Giovanni Lido @Giovanni_Lido]

Four newly discovered portraits by Cranach the Elder:

[FIFPRO @FIFPRO]

FIFPRO is shocked and sickened by reports that professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani faces execution in Iran after campaigning for women’s rights and basic freedom in his country.

We stand in solidarity with Amir and call for the immediate removal of his punishment.