"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

- edsger dijkstra

Instagram and Twitter are for the ephemeral

Sublime is for the archival

Storytelling is really just in and out points. Knowing the start, knowing the ending, then working out how everything between bridges the two

True in macro and in micro. Every scene is just a bridge between 2 distinct points of change in a larger transition

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer

Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality. It's not about how much you do, but about knowing why you're doing what you're doing, seeing dreams come to life, and having fun while you're doing it. Here are Intend's four principles for getting into flow and staying in touch with what matters to you:

• choosing & doing, over organizing

• aliven

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.

social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.

-paraphrased from Mango Street

I've never really met anyone else who oscillates so frequently and fervently between an intense desire for anonymity, to disappear even, and to crack oneself open entirely for the whole world to see. To be the maximum version of oneself in public, consequences be damned.

People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.

There are five apology languages:

1. Expressing regret (“I feel ashamed for how I hurt you.”)

2. Accepting responsibility (“I was wrong for doing that to you.”)

3. Genuinely repent (“I can only imagine how much pain I caused, I am so sorry. I won’t do that again. Next time, I will do _____ differently.”)

4. Making restitution (“This is how I will make it up to you