Category: Notes
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A “story collective” is totally a thing, right?
Here’s what I really want to do: Get a bunch of creatives/storytellers/makers together, and create brilliant and beautiful stories. Then radically succeed and pay everyone a lot of money to do it all again, but more and different. That’s not a lot to ask, right?
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The 3 secret spices of Mr. Walter E. Disney
Walter E. Disney was an average artist and a mediocre businessman. He succeeded because he possessed 3 beliefs: Belief in hard work — Since his middle school days, Walt worked every odd job he could find. He was never not working, and brought that work ethic to bear when he ventured out on his own.…
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In the attention economy, spoilers might be criminal
Hypothesis: In an attention economy, spoilers may actually be theft or vandalism. Corollary: The “spoiler warning” is an evolving social cue, and an important social cue for avoiding harm. We live in an attention economy. They used to say knowledge is power, but now there’s Google — information is everywhere, and cheap. What matters is…