Alex Dobrenko

1. “We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell.”

–Guillermo Del Toro

Paul Graham points out something Fitbit, GoPro, and Sonos investors have also observed: hardware is hard.

Maybe an indoor play place? My son also needs a lot of stimulation too. A few things I’ve found helpful- wrestling/tickling/pillow fights, swing him around and gently tossing him on the couch, setting up big foam towers so he can knock them over, kinetic sand(he rarely sits for any activity but this), toddler time at the trampolines park. Have you... See more

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Speaking with friends my age, usually the ones who were equally unathletic and unpopular and thus inundated with the content of the grotesque, we share a desire to actively re-sensitize ourselves to the tenderness of human experience.

Odenkirk, who appeared in many of the 11-minute Tom Goes to the Mayor episodes that aired on Adult Swim, puts Heidecker in the same category as his Mr. Showcollaborator David Cross, someone with “a certain kind of natural ease at being funny, that I do not think I have, and most people don’t have.” The even rarer thing that Odenkirk sees in... See more