2 RULES FOR NAVIGATING SOCIAL MEDIA:
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
Props to me for NOT mentioning that time Taylor Swift and I shared an elevator ride back in 2015.
Normally I can wedge that into any conversation.
But not ONCE this week did I bring it up.
Shows restraint.
LinkedIn is going to be LIT tomorrow:
"Travis and Taylor got engaged. Here are the 1989 lessons their engagement taught me about B2B inbound SAAS sales:"
I'm a life-long people pleaser, so I'm working with my therapist to care less about what other people think of me.
As long as that's okay with you.
If not, no worries!
UNFORTUNATE UPDATE:
Yesterday I went to the gym, ate a balanced dinner, read a book, and went to bed at a reasonable hour instead of scrolling on my phone.
Today, I feel like I have super powers.
It works, unfortunately.
Can't stop thinking about this line of poetry from Roger S. Keyes:
"He says keep changing,
you just get more who you really are."
This poem was written about the Japanese artist Hokusai, most famous for his woodblock print, "The Great Wave":
Watching any Studio Ghibli doc is an adventure.
At some point, in between the discussion around his next children's cartoon, Miyazaki will drop some offhanded comment that hits you in the heart.
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Just saw Ballerina: From the World of John Wick:
Pretty solid use of all the classic tropes:
Chekov’s gun
Chekov’s grenade belt
Chekov’s kitchen knives
Chekov’s samurai sword
Chekov’s landmine
Chekov’s ice skates
Chekov’s flame thrower
Chekov’s Baba Yaga
Etc.
@waitbutwhy Yes! The Expanse Books are INCREDIBLE. It's worth reading all 9 of them. The final 3 books contain some of the best Sci Fi I've read - up there with 3 Body Problem and Project Hail Mary