Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Cognitive Productivity
leanpub.com
choose what you pay with a “author earns” bit
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Jane Hirshfield • Passages Saved From iOS
"Alex's BAT is my secret escape into a world of absurd, yet genius comedy. It's like a brainy sitcom in written form, sparking in me more laughs and 'aha' moments than I'd care to admit :) 100% recommend"
-Tom Orbach
-Tom Orbach
Re: Your Both Are True Welcome Packet (response sorta needed)
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
Well... I think hindsight is dangerous in its clarity sometimes
Time travel in Back To The Future
New humanism is the philosophy of creative writing. It is a philosophy of disciplined individualism, of crafted authenticity.
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‘crafted authenticity’ is a beautiful phrase
But in '43 two people from our factory were arrested and one was decapitated. They had listened to English radio stations and transcribed the broadcasts on a typewriter and passed it on. This was discovered because of the typed copy. The typewriter was identified and the owner, he was one of our mechanics, his name was Zur, he was beheaded. The... See more
Curt Herzstark • An Interview with Curt Herzstark
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