Heather D'Angelo

Marketing @unlearnAI 💡 Le Nez @cartafragrances 👃1/3 Synth Boss @aurevoirsimone 🎹 music + science = perfume

[Heather D'Angelo @hellodangelo]

I’ve been a fan & dear friend of @jaimemartinezz since the early days of Au Revoir Simone when he used to take our pictures backstage. Now, 15+ years later, we’ve paired up for a unique collab of original art & music for @withFND — the 1st of a very small series together.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/I9DFhgyfnd

[CNS Summit @CNSSummit]

“We believe AI will become the new language of biology, solving previously insurmountable problems, and transforming medicine from an art form into a predictive science.”

@charleskfisher of @UnlearnAI and @RoetKasper of @QurAlisCo on the promise of #digitaltwins. #CNSSummit2023

[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.

[Ev @ev]

How to dress based on where you are

[Matthew Perpetua @perpetua]

This week is the 21st anniversary of Fluxblog, which means it will become increasingly common for me to write about artists who are younger than the site

[Unlearn.AI @UnlearnAI]

“Our purpose is to advance #AI to eliminate trial and error in medicine…we won’t be able to achieve this mission just by applying technologies created by others; the future must be invented,”@charleskfisher, on how our unique culture drives AI innovation. https://t.co/lBMTyobjuw

[Planet @planet]

Our acquisition of @SaloSciences is officially closed! Excited to add Salo’s cutting edge solutions in forest monitoring to our product suite, allowing our customers to better measure Earth’s vast ecosystems. Read on: https://t.co/yOoQqFuAm7

[Robbie Schingler @schingler]

Welcome to @planet @dmarvs, @earth_chris, @KyleGertridge and the entire @SaloSciences team!! Let's go! https://t.co/qooiSLrtu2

[Heather D'Angelo @hellodangelo]

@JBDunckel Loved this movie too & the soundtrack ✨

[Heather D'Angelo @hellodangelo]

@baileymeyers Hierarchy. I have to say it in my mind first before I say it aloud to this day.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

New Nature paper provides evidence that science has become less innovative since the 1950s. The authors suggest reversing the trend by:
1. reading widely,
2. focusing less on quantity of papers, & more on research quality,
3. taking year-long sabbaticals.
https://t.co/oYV5JCXRl8

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The orbital patterns of Saturn’s 83 moons

[Heather D'Angelo @hellodangelo]

@_subodhpatil I’m so sorry, Subodh. I know she must have been an extraordinary woman to have raised someone like you. 💛

[natty kasambala @nattykasambala]

Stutz by Jonah Hill is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years. I feel almost instantly changed by it, it’s so wild.

[gabitha. @igabitha]

trust me when i tell you. when a person loves you more than their ego, everything flows. no conversation too uncomfortable. no bare minimum task too great. no reasonable ask too unreasonable. they will move mountains for you because they want to. your happiness makes them happy.

[graham starr @GrahamStarr]

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." https://t.co/CI1WDV17oe

[Dave Marvin @dmarvs]

You, right now: 🎓📝❌😫

You, with us: 🛰⚙️🌎🌳💪😁

[Dave Marvin @dmarvs]

5. Remember why I choose this path

The perils of unchecked deforestation were impressed upon me firsthand as a young high school student

I decided then to dedicate my life to finding solutions

I haven't looked back once and don't plan to

9/

[Dave Marvin @dmarvs]

Here's what I commit to doing these next 17 years:

1. Expand the work of @SaloSciences and @forestobs

We've built an incredible system to map fundamental ecological variables at scale using satellites and neural networks

Now we're bringing this system global
5/