Sanjam

I write and make films.

[Anahaa @Anahaakangad]

Can someone GENUINELY link me with an excellent payment provider in India that accepts cross-border payments?

We have the website, have all the legal documents, have everything required and we are exhausted

More than half of these payment providers have been an absolute nightmare to deal with

If Udyam, which is government-approved, has an option for spiritual businesses, why are payment providers still making such a huge issue out of the business category, documentation, and proofs?

Genuinely looking for recommendations from people who have actually had a GOOD experience with a reliable provider for national + international payments

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Day 2 — GWTCCE
coming soon

[Matt Griswold @griswold]

The future is smaller teams, bigger worlds, and more human creativity unleashed by AI.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

@Anahaakangad @DaKSH18_ 🧑🏽‍🍳

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

An intimate, long-term relationship also forces you to sit with those parts of yourself, because the other person will not cooperate with your fantasies about yourself (even if they do, they’ll grow out of it after a while), because they cannot give you what you cannot give yourself. So this sudden consciousness becomes an opportunity for you to integrate. The friction, disappointment, and conflict in a relationship do psychological work that solitary self-reflection can’t do on its own. In that way, a partner, by merely existing, can offer you a chance to be a better person, to be more integrated with yourself.

But since this process is often painful, we tend to place the whole blame on the other person, that they are the reason for our misery, for our dissatisfaction. Ironically, the very thing that makes love so powerful also often becomes the reason a relationship falls apart. So is it the failure of a lover, a partner, or a failure of yourself?

Full essay: https://t.co/qywpLtFW92

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

You always have something to lose. Terrible take.

[Naval @naval]

The time to be most ambitious is when you have nothing to lose or nothing left to gain.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

🧑‍🍳⏲️

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

A small excerpt from a personal essay written to a friend. For all the loverboys and lovergirls. Fight!

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

@Devbosetwt Man of fine taste 🫡

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Some of you don’t read Substack and it really shows.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

@calxoxo 🙏🏽🌼

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Gods talk to us in intuition. Tune in.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

I suddenly feel like rewatching The French Dispatch.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

https://t.co/4487fxuOm2

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Less than half a year of staying inside can’t rewrite your whole storytelling philosophy. And if you had to point out a cultural change, it would be that people spend more time on their phones and social media than they did before Covid. The screens locked people inside long before Covid did.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

You’re forgetting the fact that shooting indoors is always cheaper and you get more control over light and sound. More than a cultural psychology, it’s a logistical choice, mostly.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

I notice a lot of young people's short films take place inside houses or buildings. The two big Gen Z movies this year - Obsession and Backrooms - are all set inside rooms and homes. Many earlier generations made their films outside - Spielberg with Amblin. Spike Jonze and I started by filming local skateboarders. How you live in the world affects how you film it. A Covid generation forced to stay inside will film inside.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

https://t.co/4487fxuOm2

Had to write on this. Feels like something that deserves more attention.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Your obsessions will set you free.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

@Devbosetwt Only death frees you perennially. Seek the angel of small death while alive.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

Your obsessions will set you free.

[Sanjam @sillybillisan]

It’s a quiet summer night, and you’re watching Power Rangers SPD on the living room TV. Your father comes back home from work, and your mother tells you to fetch him some water from the kitchen. You greet him and hand over a cold glass of water, and rush back to the TV screen as you don’t wanna miss watching their base transforming into the Delta Command Megazord.
The family is having dinner in the living room now, and your mother asks you if you are done with your homework for the day. Suddenly, it hits you that you are told to bring empty maps of India for the diagram practice of rivers in the Social Studies period tomorrow.
Your parents look at the clock, and it’s 9:15 PM. Your father tells you to wash your hands and come with him.
You and your father are gliding through the streets of your city on a silver activa at 9:30 PM, looking for open stationary shops. Finally, after looking for over 30 minutes, you find a shop that is just closing its shutters. Your father talks to the shopkeeper and convinces him to reopen the shop so you can get your maps…

Full story:
https://t.co/k5J5ZdK8dN