Lukewarm

[Revaire @revaire_club]

"The Private Club for Private Flights."

Thank you, @RobbReport, for the deep dive.

The era of the solitary, inefficient charter is over.

The future is shared. The future is Revaire.

https://t.co/Ox6CilK4Fj

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic).

Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver.

He didn't go to film school.

Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and..

"I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained.

"And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done."

"So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120.

I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home."

Takeaway 1:

When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him.

"People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod."

The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do.

"You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.”

Takeaway 2:

Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera.

When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it."

The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing."

"When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing."

Takeaway 3:

Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience").

He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing."

Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom."

When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom."

Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing.

- - -

“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

You know it’s cold outside when you go outside and it’s cold.

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@realstewpeters Delete this

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The first NFT song was a success! https://t.co/D6hhAEy7x7

For the last two songs, @davi_us and I are going to try @niftygateway just to understand the difference.

Those two songs will drop tomorrow. (Thursday the 22nd)

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

First #NFT song is live with @davi_US!

-> https://t.co/D6hhAEPIoF

This song is about how when you try to build something new, there will be many doubters and haters along the way. Ignore them and trust your gut. Determination is key to innovation (with homage to @elonmusk).

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

1/ Over the next few days I'll be releasing some electronic music that I created with DJ DAVI (David Khanjian). We'll be releasing them as NFTs.

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@stephanjenkins @swellbottle Whose job is it to refill these??

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@stephanjenkins 😭

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@jackrussell0906 of course. The article does a terrible job of stating how belligerent and out of hand dude was

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@justbrad23 @AP I got your back anytime

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

👋🏻

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@stephanjenkins powder and trees

[纸飞机账号~电报账号 @stephanjenkins]

Oh fuck yeah. This is my life. This is the circus and these are my pirates. https://t.co/cRJDfG9Kd4

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

@stephanjenkins 3eb @ParamountThea last night. Photo by @hiephotography

[Lukewarm @lukemcnees]

Head-sized potato, 22 oz prime rib, and a mud pie. It's good to be in #Ketchum