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Live Well.

[Gogo @GogoGrows_]

There will always be some struggle. Once this is realized, one no longer waits to start living.

[Gogo @GogoGrows_]

Process over outcomes.

Real progress is slow and boring but it rewards those who can prioritize the day to day effort over where they wish to be. Do what you need to do today, then worry about tomorrow when it comes.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

5 boring habits to do before 9am

1. Get sunlight in the morning
2. Take a 20 minute walk
3. No screens at 10pm
4. Get 40g of protein
5. Eat yogurt

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have more hobbies and fewer opinions. Learn an instrument. Plant a garden. Build something with your hands. Cook. Paint. Run. The happiest people I know spend less time debating life and more time actually living it.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Passive consumption is dangerous because it gives you the emotions of progress without the substance of progress. It is one of the biggest scams in modern life.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

A newly found bright spot on the moon has been named Carroll by the Artemis II crew.

This is named after astronaut Reid Wiseman's late wife.

[kyle @Ky1eLong]

Routine! Exercise! Community!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

What a privilege it is to afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their full potential.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

The constant pumping of music into every public space, every idle second of sport, every supermarket and café, speaks to an underlying sickness, a kind of cultural mental illness. As a society we are allergic to silence, terrified of spending even one second with our own thoughts

[Soledad Francis PhD @SoledadFrancis]

Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture.

-From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity.

-Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard."

-From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction.

-The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism.

-The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."

[Chris Klemmer @ChrisKlemmer]

Ryan Gosling popped in before the showing of Project Hail Mary that @JackKennedy and I are at. @ProjBigScreen

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager

> drive your friends to the airport
> go to their party even when you're tired
> stop cancelling last minute
> host at your place
> support the wins & losses

it's worth every ounce of effort

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

Presenting this year’s Best Picture nominees:

• BUGONIA
• F1
• FRANKENSTEIN
• HAMNET
• MARTY SUPREME
• ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
• THE SECRET AGENT
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE
• SINNERS
• TRAIN DREAMS

Watch the #Oscars LIVE on Sunday, March 15th, at 7e/4p on ABC and Hulu. #OnlyAtTheOscars

Song: "Mystified" | Artist: James Dooley | Video edit by Sleepy Skunk

[Gogo @GogoGrows_]

Sometimes you don't need new lessons. You just need to relearn your old ones.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention.

The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

[p @whimsicalpee]

We’ve normalized overconsumption. Podcast while walking. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Netflix while eating. Something is always filling the silence. It’s like we’re scared of being alone with our own thoughts. There’s no breathing space left for your mind.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Smart phones really just ruined everything. People don’t even know how to sit still and think anymore, let alone pick up a book and read. Everyone is constantly overstimulated, addicted to the passive consumption of random bits of content streamed into their eyeballs at light speed. Kids are raised this way from birth. It’s unhuman. Disastrous for the mind and soul.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The person you will be in 5 years: