Paulie

When life hands me lemons, I make beef stew

[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@nickjakel13 @jaysonst Some of us are just built different 💪

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@cantdrawarsenal

[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@moonyriott Neither. No swoosh marks behind train ergo train is stationary

[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.

[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@usmntonly @CBSSportsGolazo WHO IS THE COLOR COMMENTARY ON THIS?

[Nekias (Nuh-KAI-us) Duncan @NekiasNBA]

The Denver Nuggets' PnR defense is highly dependent on their help *behind* the action.

In Game 2, the Miami Heat took full advantage of that by spamming empty corner & empty side actions.

Let's talk about it ahead of a pivotal Game 3.

🗣️ SOUND ON

[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@MenInBlazers *Rokas Puskás

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@TVTime

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@RexHuppke *A hot dog joint that ridicules its customers as a bit

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

.@TerraceMartin, @RobertGlasper, and @KamasiW’s new Dinner Party album is coming next week https://t.co/jed4bcynDm

[Jogo Bonito @ufcfooty]

The 🐐 entertainer turns 43 today… The man that made me fall in love with football, Mr Joga Bonito himself 🇧🇷

Let’s take a trip down memory lane 👇

[Will Gottlieb @WillGottlieb]

BULLS 109, 76ers 105 in 2OT

Bulls beat Embiid for the first time in his career!

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

“I want Purdue to see this. The more I watch Purdue, the more I think we can beat them”

🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢

[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@TheFieldOf68 @SidelineStormer

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Brief thread of some beautiful paintings of the sunrise:

Sunrise at Futamigaura by Utagawa Kunisada (1832)

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

When you can't wait for the madness to begin.

[Ring Magazine @ringmagazine]

‼️ Oleksandr Usyk ACCEPTS Tyson Fury's 70/30 offer for an undisputed fight on April 29th at Wembley Stadium, so long as "greedy belly" donates £1million to Ukraine…

[🎥 @Usykaa]

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

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[Paulie @blaseisreal]

@MollyJongFast She's right though...

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@jon_greenberg @kfishbain @patrickfinley "Bryce, have you spoken to the Bears?"