Ali Cherry

February 2009: Create Twitter account. December 2018: Send first tweet. Insights and links worth remembering.

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

“If a kid has access to a device the role of the teacher changes..the kids have access to all the information..how do we personalize our children's experience so that we're stoking their interests & their passions" @villanuevabeard w @guyraz @HowIBuiltThis https://t.co/PdidVLZbJ9

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

@WendiAarons Funniest thing I've read in weeks! "What the hell! Is this a restaurant for mice?" Hilarious! Thanks for this!!

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"Love for that work, above all, as the motive & as the reward. The idea that the work itself is its reward and the love of the work is the point of the entire thing and everything else is lucky and grateful and fantastic" @GilbertLiz w Ann Patchett https://t.co/RpjStfIhW3 @nypl

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"I had to risk being human w other people & realized that what we offer each other is our truth & our truth includes all of our stuff & the first thing I had to do was accept my own truth" Ram Dass on starting w being honest w who we are https://t.co/gDIA17h456

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

“We all have a deep yearning to understand ourselves & be understood. When I see couples in therapy, often one or the other will complain, not ‘You don’t love me’ but ‘You don’t understand me'” @LoriGottlieb1 on the under acknowledged human need in #MaybeYouShouldTalkToSomeone

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"Connection to self it turns out is the foundation that we need to connect to other ppl..Erosion of confidence in ourselves, of comfort w who we are, can impair our ability to reach out to & connect to other ppl" insightful @vivek_murthy w @ShankarVedantam https://t.co/ISRh0rq1Ae

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“Ppl are starting to really feel the difference b/w what it's like to have an interactive seeing & being seen moment w someone vs a validation let me put up a filtered version of myself & get a lot of feedback on that”@justinpmcleod @hinge @JayShettyIW https://t.co/IwvK24IkLd

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@jeffsimmermon Clearly I have no idea how Twitter works since I'm just seeing this : ) Found it after hearing you on Let's Talk About Sets podcast!

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"Everyone’s lonely, everyone’s scared & we’re all trying to figure it out. When we see someone admit to the same flaws we perceive in ourselves, we love them for it..it’s the foundation of human connection & pretty much the reason we exist" @jeffsimmermon https://t.co/iomGLw8YGR

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"If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you're never going to be creatively fulfilled" Joseph Gordon-Levitt @hitRECordJoe on how needing an audience leads to never-enough thinking https://t.co/gHMcFmxJE7 @TEDTalks

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"At first he was a very goofy guy..I think that maybe he should be a kid, he just happens to be a big kid," Caroll Spinney, whose small suggestion & 50 yrs of inspired work created the world's most iconic character @iambigbirdmovie https://t.co/m57EmMCwQE

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"our dreams become these compartmentalized fixations on some future that destroy our ability to be present for our lives right now" @danpallotta on dreaming in the dimension of being "heroic humility that allows us to remove our masks & be real" https://t.co/EsEWphSZ9e @TEDTalks

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"You have to really make a value judgment & say do I want to finish what I'm doing or do I want to stop & do something else...tabs are a metaphor for life" Classic hilarity from @jameshamblin of @TheAtlantic on #TablessThursday https://t.co/Nq3OOPEEYE

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"Only way you can offer wisdom is by connecting what you know..to the goals this individual has & the art of it is can I listen well enough, can I extract from this conversation..what you really care about to give you some guidance?" @Atul_Gawande @onbeing https://t.co/xZhZq5C5HM

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"Having that fear & constant questioning is what makes a great performer...if you were truly confident, there would be no vulnerability & I think being an inspiring performer requires you to show your vulnerability" @natashavaynblat on chasing dreams https://t.co/qFc57FgW3z

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"I see you, I hear you, I'm with you, we are present together. Is there anything that ppl you serve want more than that? If they're learning [or buying] something from you it's so they can be seen" @ThisIsSethsBlog on how our job is to make art @ConvertKit https://t.co/7JgQ0vO9Tw

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

“Resistance to me is sort of like the villain in a movie. If there were no villain, there’d be no movie. So resistance gives meaning to everything” @SPressfield w @marieforleo on the point of the hard part in creating good work https://t.co/jFYCtA0XlO

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

"We shouldn't abandon our most precious insights to the lax guardians of our memories..we need to make the most important ideas vivid in our minds on a constant basis..nothing stays active unless we rehearse & repeat" @alaindebotton on @TheSchoolOfLife https://t.co/2rGsVKq2Fi

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

Depression's "biggest trick is convincing everyone who is part of that club that they're the only member..we start talking about the feeling itself, ppl can get on board with that" @jaketyler_bdw on being open & how we're all on the same team @TEDTalks https://t.co/TgBNQAuY8l

[Ali Cherry @alicherry]

“From the moment [I start] until the moment I deliver it is usually about 18 to 24 months on a screenplay, but most of that time is spent trying to think of it & being depressed..most of that is spent not writing” Aaron Sorkin normalizing hard @masterclass https://t.co/AxswNlKhmq