Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
The idea that all our choices are determined by past events may seem dispiriting – but it can be emotionally liberating
Francis Merson • Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits | Psyche Ideas
In online ads, three seconds is considered a successful view for a video. For ad placements, the same three seconds seen 8-10 times is considered enough for someone to remember. If they’re interested, maybe they’ll watch for 10 seconds, 15 would be incredible.
"A View Is Considered Three Seconds"
The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
~W.H. Auden, “Leap Before You Look,” December 1940
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
~W.H. Auden, “Leap Before You Look,” December 1940
Look Before You Leap
So I really like making lists and categorizing stuff in my life. I just have a giant spreadsheet with ranked lists of like my favorite brands of oat milk and genres of music I like etc but i feel like there is a better place I could have all this info stored in. Any advice? Preferably on mobile so I can do this on the go.
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Posting can be fun, entertaining, and even enlightening. But when we want to share a creative act we went deep into the void to create, we owe our work more than a post. We owe it a RELEASE.
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it... See more
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it... See more
Yancey Strickler • Do you post or do you RELEASE?
If you have unconventional ideas, you can create a large impact by forcing those ideas onto people and systems that exist in conventional institutions
-Palmer Luckey
I suppose is that I don’t really buy that any of these guys (roon, BasedJeffBezos, etc.) believe what they’re selling--it all feels like a Twitter performance and rhetorical strategy, embedded in and subservient to a fully non-mystical political economy dominated by venture capital, the national security state, etc. As much as I’d like to join in... See more
Max Read • Why the internet isn't fun anymore + A.I. and magic
It’s not loneliness, not exactly, not the kind that rips or rages or tears but the kind that settles, humid and low, into the bones, so that you do not even notice it until one day you find yourself sitting alone at a patio and someone who looks your age asks, “Excuse me, may I take this chair?” before transplanting the seat of your invisible beau... See more