DeSean Brown

Strategist - Marketing/Advertising/Tech/Media

[my book is better than my tweets @MichellCClark]

this life is not a dress rehearsal. stop postponing your joy until everything is fixed, finished, healed, explained, or approved.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

- McKellen reciting Vonnegut

[Doyle McManus @DoyleMcManus]

Robert F Kennedy Sr this day in 1968: “The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, the strength of our marriages or the integrity of our officials”

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Congratulations Nephews!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

However Sinners performs at Academy Awards, Ryan Coogler already won by negotiating back the film IP rights in 25 years and releasing this incredible educational promo bit on different screen aspect ratios and film formats.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Autumn Durald Arkpaw is the first woman EVER to win Best Cinematography at the Oscars.

See the full winners list: https://t.co/2LO8EZqZIM

[Muses of Media @MusesOfMedia]

Autumn Durald Arkapaw has won her first Academy Award tonight! #Oscars

She makes history as the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

I've worked with brilliant people who couldn't deliver on time and average people who never missed a deadline, and the average ones went further every single time. Running a business taught me this fast. The people who get promoted, who earn trust, who get the best opportunities are rarely the most talented in the room. They're the ones you don't have to chase, the ones who close loops without being reminded and follow through on the thing they promised last Tuesday. Most people can't do this consistently, and I don't think it's because it's hard. I think it's because they don't treat small commitments seriously. There's a belief that the big moments are what matter, that one great presentation or one impressive project will change the trajectory. But I've hired people with incredible portfolios who disappeared after week two, and I've hired people with average skills who became indispensable within a month because I never had to wonder if they'd follow through. What I've learned is that talent gets you in the room, but what keeps you there is whether people can rely on you when nobody's watching. There's something almost boring about this truth, which is probably why most people ignore it. We want the answer to be talent, or intelligence, or some rare quality that only a few people have. But the real answer is that the person who just does what they said they'd do, over and over, in the moments that feel small and forgettable, that's the person who ends up running things.

[Mr. Christopher @iamalmostlegend]

Eddie discussed this on Leno when the movie was released in 1992.

Crazy, yet not surprising, that over 30 years later “unrealistic” has become “unqualified” for successful Black people in the real world.

Boomerang is one of the best movies EVER with one of the best movie soundtracks ever.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

How it's going. (@thecritics001 have made a film that will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.)
https://t.co/AXKu3qdkkb

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Satchel Paige had a very, very good fastball... but the first time I faced Satchel, he threw me a little breaking ball just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence.
I got a double.
When I got to second base, Satchel told the third baseman, 'Let me know when that little boy comes back up.'
Three innings later, I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle and I hear the third baseman say, 'There he is.'
Satch looked at the third baseman, and then he looked at me.
I walk halfway to home plate and he says, 'Little boy.'
I say, 'Yes, sir?' because Satch was much older than I am, so I was trying to show respect.
Satch walked halfway to home plate and said, 'Little boy, I'm not going to trick you.
I'm going to throw you three fastballs and you're going to go sit down'.
And I'm saying in my mind, 'I DOOON'T THINK SOOO.
If Satch threw me three of the same pitch, I'm going to hit it somewhere.
I turned to the catcher and asked, “What does he mean?”
The catcher told me, “He’s going to throw you three fast balls.
Nothing else.”
Satchel threw me two fastballs and I just swung...
I swung right through it....
and the third ball he threw, and I tell people this all the time, he threw the ball and as he let go he said, 'Go sit down.'
This is while the ball was in the air.
Yes, he struck me out with three pitches.
He was just magnificent."
17 year old Willie Mays.

[Mr. Billy the Librarian @3kingvisions]

Starting next week Whitney Library is hosting its mobile showers twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays! This is a huge win for my community. It’s the things that we take for granted in life and I am thankful that my library can provide this resource. Please spread the word!

[PeachCobblerCheeseCake @DanYee3zy]

@3kingvisions They need to do this in Long Beach, CA They have a public library that the homeless camp out and sleep at and this would be super dope

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Denzel Washington gives Delroy Lindo his flowers, & Delroy Lindo tells the story for the first time in front of Denzel Washington about how Denzel stopped him from leaving New York when they were young actors, during a candid Sinners Q&A hosted by Denzel.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The 10 Inconvenient Truths of Coaching

1. Not every kid wants to be great.
2. You will be misunderstood, often.
3. Some parents care more about minutes than the team.
4. Your best players aren’t always your best leaders.
5. No system works without buy-in.
6. Winning doesn’t silence critics.
7. Culture isn’t built fast; it’s built daily.
8. One-size-fits-all coaching doesn’t work.
9. Wins don’t always show your real impact.
10. The job takes more than it gives…until years later.

Still worth it.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Pressure doesn’t create mistakes.
It reveals what you practiced.
Your talent doesn’t take over.
Your standard does.
And if your standard is “sometimes,” that’s what you’ll be when it matters.
We do what we trained.

[Louis Riddick @LRiddickESPN]

This is so good.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Raphael Saadiq with his record collection