Darrell Mann

Detective. Fixer. Mentor. Writer.

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 12, Equipotentiality - 'I Am Both'... beautiful Margaret Glaspy re-invention...
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[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.'
Anais Nin
#Innovation

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40P Example: Principle 8, AntiWeight - 'Don't Look Now, Satan's over there'... about an ex-boyfriend. Future of rock'n'roll 2026...
https://t.co/UrhIjTqNkO

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - Paul Rodgers makes everything his own...
https://t.co/f6HlX4kgQD

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.'
David Foster Wallace

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40P Example: Principle 6, Universality - Nerina Pallot is all of Ace... (great fun in Torrington last night)...
https://t.co/sRQGMUmXes

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'The known is finite, the unknown infinite: intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.'
Thomas Henry Huxley
#Innovation

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - Don + Trisha...
Best Henley solo album?
https://t.co/nU3qOrvrDy

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'Mediocristan is where we must endure the tyranny of the collective, the routine, the obvious, and the predicted; Extremistan is where we are subjected to the tyranny of the singular, the accidental, the unseen, and the unpredicted.'
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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40P Example: Principle 13, The Other Way Around - Kathleen flips Tom...
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[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.'
William Gibson
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[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'The scariest moment is always just before you start.'
Stephen King
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40P Example: Principle 17, Another Dimension - BVs
https://t.co/BSE7jQHVZE

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40P Example: Principle 34, Discard & Recover - 1979 in 2026...
https://t.co/p086gGA7AW

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 38, Enriched Atmosphere - Los Lobos does Shakey... with added grunge...
https://t.co/UtIekJGUy0

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 9, Prior Counteraction... ?

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

A Brief History of Philosophy:

• 375 BC: Plato is wrong
• 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong
• 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong
• 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong
• 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong
• 413 AD: Augustine is wrong
• 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong
• 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong
• 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong
• 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong
• 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong
• 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong
• 1739 AD: Hume is wrong
• 1781 AD: Kant is wrong
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong

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T4D: ‘Success is 50% luck and the other 50% being lucky in riding your luck.’
Charles Saatchi
#Innovation

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - super-stretched version of Shiverman...
https://t.co/v3p0CDyLuj

[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?'
Hermann Hesse
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[Darrell Mann @darrellmann]

T4D: 'We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent.'
Robert Anton Wilson: