Dennis Larimer

All tweets are made using my radio voice.

[Jeff Platt @jeffplatt]

Quite the return to the Main for @DutchBoyd:

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

@starkmanjones in STL to see THEE box office attraction and the next NXT champion!!!

[sean illing @seanilling]

I think we can confidently say that throwing pattern-seeking animals into an info environment that assembles reality on the basis of individual preferences and personalized algorithms was an extremely shitty social experiment

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

@StLouisBlues @FanDuelSN_MW @101espn JK is awesome... can't imagine not hearing him do Blues game next year. Radio and TV play by play are totally different animals. Curious to see how this turns out! #LGB #BLUES

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

On July 4, 2012 in San Diego, California, thousands of people gathered for the ‘Big Bay Boom,’ attending what they thought would be a 17 minute show.

Instead, 7,000 fireworks accidentally went off all at same time.

The fireworks were triggered from a computer however a glitch in the software changed everything.

The 17 minute show lasted just 30 seconds but was remembered as one of the greatest firework shows of all time.

Happy 4th 🇺🇸

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The time Eddie Vedder slid down his mic cable in 1992

[GrappleClips @GrappleClips]

The finish from Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant from WrestleMania 3 without commentary & from only the Hard Cam.

What a FUCKING POP!

*📸📸📸 makes it better

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

This year, for the first time, all 27 billboards of Times Square went dark in NYC, and then lit up with the story of the Birth of Christ

The First Christmas

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

The fearless tenacity of the creative process. Anyone can be a critic...but it takes real bravery to CREATE.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen.

It perfectly demonstrates something known as the "Creativity Faucet."

When you go to the studio, John Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?

“Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because

it requires a stupid bravery all the time.”

He strums a couple chords without singing. A nice melody begins to form—“you can sit here all day [doing this] and go, ‘Okay, maybe that’s something.'”

“But if you don’t go,” and then he improvises vocals,

“Sunlights beating on the corner of the walls / and I’m a Mr. know-it-all / heaven calls / get yourself right / get yourself right,” he stops playing, raises his finger to his mouth, and explains, “if you’re not ouija boarding immediately, you’re wasting time.”

“You just stare at the corner of the wall,” he says, before he improvises some more,

“Stare at the corner of the wall / try to get it going on / but I can’t sometimes / you just keep going 'til you get something / maybe I’m a little bit shy / maybe someday I’ll tell you why,” he stops singing, “you gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.”

“It doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mouth]...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless…It’s hard to do.”

Takeaway 1:

In the clip, we see John Mayer's ability to generate vocals steadily increase.

It's a perfect display of what Julian Shapiro—who (among other things) is incredible at deconstructing how things like creativity work—calls the “Creativity Faucet.”

Essentially, creativity works like “a backed-up pipe of water,” Shapiro writes. “The first mile is packed with wastewater. This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.”

At the beginning of a creative session, almost always, bad ideas come out of the faucet first. The John Mayers of the world have the discipline and “a stupid bravery,” as Mayer said, to get through the backed-up pipe of bad ideas, to empty the wastewater, to “just keep going 'til you get something,” as he sang.

Takeaway 2:

To let out bad ideas, to empty the waste water, Mayer said, you have to “get fearless, fearless, fearless.”

In another interview, Mayer was asked how he defines writer’s block.

“Writer’s block,” he said, “is when the two people inside of you—the writer and the reader—when the reader doesn’t love the writer. Writer’s block is not a failure to write. It is a failure to catch the feedback loop of enjoying what you’re seeing and wanting to contribute more to it.”

A creative block is not a failure to create. It is a failure to accept that you must empty a lot of bad ideas before good ideas can flow. It is a failure to get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.

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“You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.” — John Mayer

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[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

@AskTarget hey Target! Christmas shoppers in Columbia, Missouri donated thousands of dollars woth of toys to local kids in the Hospital this Christmas! 99% of the toys came from @Target! Care to chip in with a donation? Let me know and I'll get you connected! @q1061 🎅😊

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

Great thread on the power of gratefulness and positivity.

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

Last night a miracle happened.

It was a little after MIDNIGHT & I woke up to the sound of banging yelling.

My three year old son was screaming & beating on his door.

He’s normally a great sleeper, so I RAN downstairs to check on him.

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

We will see you...tomorrow night!!

[Tom Ackerman @Ackerman1120]

October 27, 2011 on KMOX. Game 6. #stlcards

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Nearsighted fam: take your glasses off and pull your phone away from you eyes. Look at the blonde girl.

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

Needed this! Being nice and being kind are not always the same thing. Tough read, but it came at a perfect time for me. Thanks @PhilGalfond.

[Phil Galfond @PhilGalfond]

Today, I took a very hard look in the mirror.

Then, I sat down and wrote something that was very uncomfortable for me, but that I felt needed to be said.

I hope these will be the most negative words you ever read from me:

https://t.co/JH64GkSuyC

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

I appreciate knowing that being an introvert can be a superpower https://t.co/izB1g3OByV

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Don't ask introverts “why are you so quiet?”. Bruh, that’s how they function. That's the design of their DNA. Quiet & alone. They don't talk just to talk, they talk when they have something to say. When something excites them. When something moves their soul, then, they talk.

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

Let's go Tigers! #TIGERSTYLE

[Russell Thomas @RunGoodRussell]

Rounders 2:
She Had To Know.
Featuring @RobbiJadeLew and @GmanPoker

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting

[Dennis Larimer @dennislarimer]

Love it!!