Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
what’s most underrated according to you?
Remember that Kathy Acker was big on task work, too: “I really didn’t want any creativity,” she said, “so I set up this task, this nutty task basically, and I’d do it!”
Mason Currey • Seek funny leaps
Make ethics explicit.
Ben Horowitz • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.
- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah
sums up why i hate podcasts w successful ppl telling us about how they got successful
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supercast-storage-assets.b-cdn.netDesperation is a black hole that can never be filled with what lies outside of us.
Lee A Smart • Be Successful Now
Here’s what’s ahead in this edition:
- An August of ideas: my California origin story
- The slow lift: a discovery
- Links and recommendations: not toooo many
- Checking in: what’s Robin doing?
Robin Sloan • The Golden Door
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.