Arné Dunckers

Keeping it simply complex since the 80s. Strategist. Student of psychology. 🖖🏻

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

Dust storm and electric (no Eskom contribution). The taste of Tshwane.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Using a camera mount that tracks the Milky Way, photographer Eric Brummel produces mesmerizing and thought-provoking time-lapses, revealing our home planet's movement through space.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

Live now. Blast off in 3minutes. Looks like I missed my flight, again.

[NASA Universe @NASAUniverse]

In about 30 minutes, tune into @JAXA_en’s live broadcast of the XRISM launch. This new X-ray telescope is headed to space to help us study exploding stars, black holes, and more.

Launch coverage begins around 7:10 p.m. ET on JAXA's YouTube: https://t.co/f1JT8bJVjg

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

See that ridiculously small dot on the horizon? That’s the moon. It’s red. I need to learn photography skills if it’s going get all dressed up in red again.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

This advert is still absolutely wonderful. "Our values define us" https://t.co/CYvgA0Wg9D

[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.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

“The heartbeat is a rhythm that our brain is using to give us our sense of time passing." Scientifically poetic. https://t.co/rCFKDFkRXf

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane Good day, I reported a water leak 11 days ago and received 2 ref numbers, ref: 6000849234 & ref: 6000849203, nothing has been actioned since. Could you assist with a follow-up, please?

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The science of global warming beautifully and simply explained by Dr. Carl Sagan, ca. 1985.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@BBrown24646528 @TheAnonymous_ZA Yes for progress focused. This reminds me of this quote: "We don’t inherit the earth from our grandparents - we borrow it from our children."

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@lefamorobe "Discovered" does have a tendency to imply first ever/"invented". I've been hopeful that it rather implies "discovered" from a specific perspective/discovered for themselves, rather than an arrogantly holistic view.

[Cyanide & Happiness @Explosm]

This one goes out to all you aspiring artists out there

[Ben Cooper @LaunchPhoto]

Falcon Heavy launches Jupiter-3 and the side boosters return to LZ-1&2. The people who worked in the days of Mercury could not have imagined 2023.

[Ben Cooper @LaunchPhoto]

More shots of the launch of Falcon Heavy with Jupiter 3

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane I really hope that you did. If Back office does give assistance, pls pass on the info.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane no technicians have pitched up for Ref 1049 7/20/2023. 3 days with zero power and broken cable lines next to the road. Any insight pls??

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane Thank you

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane Hello, could you please escalate or provide any info on Ref 1049 7/20/2023? It’s day 3 without power in Menlo Park.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane Thank you for the status update.

[Arné Dunckers @TheArneD]

@CityTshwane Hello, is there a way to escalate a power outage Ref 1409 of 7/20/2023?
And could you assist with a link to report a water leak please?