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KEEPS: The Curse of Knowledge →
keepsdiary:
“Lots of research in economics and psychology shows that when we know something, it becomes hard for us to imagine not knowing it. As a result, we become lousy communicators. Think of a lawyer who can’t give you a straight, comprehensible answer to a legal question. His vast knowledge and…
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July 2011
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theessentialman:
iwishicouldapparate:
Me...
February 2011
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Something to think about...
Building up lot of clutter lately and I’m trying to simplify, simplify. Good article on this.
http://zenhabits.net/edit-your-life-part-2-your-rooms/
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Sometimes, a man and his guitar is quite enough.
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Something to think about...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15turow.html?hp
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I’ve been reading “The Collaborative Spirit” by Twyla Tharp, a gift from a fellow castmate. Here are some of my favorite thoughts on collaboration:
-collaborators aren’t born, they’re made. Or, to be more precise, built, a day at a time, through practice, through attention, through discipline, through passion and commitment—and, most of all, through habit.
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Screenwriting Tip #478
screenwritingtips:
Please, can we have fewer long, tedious ‘riffing’ scenes in comedies? They’re a momentum-suck, and usually they just suck.
PLEASE.
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November 2010
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“Choose the right friends and you’ll be less inclined to regret always...”
THE ESSENTIAL MAN: Some People are Toxic, Avoid... →
“There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on.
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Fuck Yeah Existentialism: An Existential Term a... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Anxiety:
For Kierkegaard (writing as a pseudonymous author, Vigilius Haufniensis), anxiety/dread/angst is unfocused fear. Kierkegaard uses the example of a man standing on the edge of a tall building or cliff. When the man looks over the edge, he experiences a focused fear of falling, but at…
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Watchtwentyfourbit:
Arcade Fire - “The Suburbs” (Directed by Spike Jonze)
Back in April, word spread that director Spike Jonze was in Austin, Texas shooting a short film about “friends growing apart” to be used in promotion of Arcade Fire’s latest album, The Suburbs. Reps weren’t eager to confirm the reports at first, of course, but now, 7 months later, it has arrived: Watch the suburban teen drama...