Bob Stevens Sr

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

Would you fly one of these?

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@paramountplus NE scored while I'm still waiting for the challenge on the 4th and one.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@paramountplus Again with going back in time!

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@paramountplus Now it skipped 60 seconds.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@paramountplus Game is replaying back 2 minutes. Did this last week too.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

Bills Game still going on paramount

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@andyparkertv @WBEN -2.0 F Lakewood

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10 One of your's? 😁

[Kristy Tallman @KristyTallman]

🚨‼️CRYSTAL CLEAR Broad Daylight Drone Sighting Stuns New Jersey Resident

A crystal-clear video of a massive drone, filmed in broad daylight over New Jersey, is drawing attention as sightings of similar mysterious drones continue across six East Coast states. The unexplained phenomenon has sparked federal investigations.

#DroneSightings #NewJersey #WildScenic #MysteriousDrones #EastCoast #BreakingNews #PublicSafety #KristyTallman

🎥 wild_scenic_ on Instagram

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

Ten years ago, our first robotics master's and PhD students started in the brand new program.

Their task: making an aerial vehicle grab a ping pong ball in flight and drop it off.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Omg this Kamala “interview” is so good !!! 😭

Must watch and share 🔥🔥🔥

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This underwater upside down view of synchronized swimmers produces a surreal effect, to say the least

[📹 Fabio Ferioli]

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@ScottAdamsSays My mother died from covid isolation policy. She gave up.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

Here's a new one. I finished it today.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@mnstevens10

[Inferam @InferamAI]

How to make a flying paper butterfly
https://t.co/EurB3gMnPN

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@13EricaLynn @CaltransDist10 @CaltransHQ I see chain requirements. Are you going to kirkwood?

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@13EricaLynn @mnstevens10 @BobStevensJr I like this strategy.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it:

Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded.

“And so,” Damon said,

“We wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ and that part that Robin [Williams] eventually took—we called it ‘the Harvey Keitel part.’”

“Ben [Affleck] and I wrote the movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors…But we knew [we needed] a big-name actor who could get us some money because Ben and I were worth nothing.

And so we wrote ‘the Harvey Keitel part’ really open-ended. So we could adjust it: if Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington wanted to come in and play it—we could make that character from Roxbury [a neighborhood in Boston], and we could explore the historic racial tension in Boston. If Meryl Streep took the part—instead of a father-son relationship, we could make it a mother-son relationship.

So we really left it open-ended because we wanted to cast as wide a net as possible because we were just trying to get the movie made.”

“And then once we got Robin to sign up to do it, that’s really what got us a green light to make it…He changed our lives.”

Takeaway 1:

In one of my favorite talks, "Runnin' Down A Dream," the venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains that while studying the career trajectories of three of his heroes—the restauranteur Danny Meyer, the coach Bobby Knight, and the musician Bob Dylan—he noticed a pattern:

They studied the career trajectories of the icons in their respective industries. Like Damon, they studied how others successfully got their foot in the door then climbed to top of their profession. And then, they took similar steps towards doing the same.

Coincidentally, Tarantino did this too. He made scrap books for each of his favorite filmmakers: Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, and Martin Scorsese. "I was like a film historian," Tarantino said. "I was obsessed with studying how they did it, the evolution of their careers."

"Greatness isn't random," as Gurley puts it. Instead, it's usually a predictable step along a studied path of strategically modified emulation and, of course, determination.

Takeaway 2:

In the clip above, Damon goes on to explain that, not only did Robin Williams sign on to be in "Good Will Hunting," he also went off script and improvised one of the most iconic lines ("Son of a bitch, he stole my line") in the movie.

It reminded me of something Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull writes in his book, Creativity. Inc.:

"Getting the right people is more important than getting the right idea…If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better."

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“Bob Dylan said, 'I'm a musical expeditionary.' I looked up 'expeditionary'—it's to travel for scientific research or exploration. And that's what Dylan did...For hours upon hours upon hours, he studied what other artists did. He was a mimic. He was studying, studying, studying.” — Bill Gurley

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[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@13EricaLynn Beware!

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

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[FLYING Magazine @FlyingMagazine]

We're giving away an airplane in the Ultimate FLYING Giveaway, a giveaway for FLYING subscribers. Choose between the ICON A5 and the Tecnam Astore.

No purch. nec. Ends 3/31/24 (15 entry periods). Official rules at https://t.co/tdLcb5CEq7.

[Bob Stevens Sr @thor7660]

@13EricaLynn Oops! Wrong Valve

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A definitely different type of flood

A river of red wine flows through São Lourenco do Bairro in Portugal when the local distillery's 2.2 million liter tanks burst

Anadia Fire Department blocked the flood diverting it away from the river into a field
https://t.co/3AhIFt5rEH