Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
HTML Energy
html.energyinterview inspo and
A classic pattern: you try hard to write like someone else, but then you mess up and write in some stupid other way—and that ends up being what people relate to. I wish I had messed up sooner.
Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
"The units of information saved in sublime are small by nature, I believe summaries are not needed."
when adding a video, there’s a few second delay before seeing the modal for “add note” and “add to collections” etc.
curiously for this video it went pretty fast.
One way to make it easier to drop your grudges is to see how funny they look on other people. Alain de Botton flips out on someone who negatively reviews his book: “I will hate you til the day and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you ever make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude.”
Alara • Review of Alain de Botton’s “Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”
this is so funny omg Alan De Botton commented on a dude’s post who reviewed his work badly I’m dying
During an evening swim through big, slow swells, I floated on my back and peered across at San Francisco; the sun was sinking directly behind the city. All I could see was the water — dark, nearly black, the way it gets at that time of day — and the scalloped top of the city’s silhouette, like a floating citadel. Atlantean, in that light.
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Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this recent past. They were middle men connecting financial capital (businesses) with cultural capital (artists) to create social capital (cultural institutions). Fashion and literary editors, film and
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