Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
saw this the other day on @Sublime
haven’t been able to get it out of my head. as it calls to something I very much learned myself this year.
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly,... See more
Johnathan Dodsonsubstack.com"If you feel resistance before you begin, it's usually procrastination and you need to get started.
If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."
If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."
3-2-1: On discarding old commitments, handling disappointments, and how to go from vision to reality
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly com pulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only acciden tally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
love how Didion just sneaks profound bombs into her writing cuz they don’t insist on themselves bc they’re so woven into the prose that’s moving fast forward
In a business context, digitization was just a hostile takeover. Digital substitution goods were cheaper, more convenient, and more scalable than their pre-Internet competitors. Max may be digital cable with slightly worse content, Uber may be digital cabs that price gouge you when you need them most, and Airbnb may be digital hotels run by the
... See moreIn the aggregate, Andrew’s therapeutic language took on a sinister edge. It was communicating a commitment that was not real, a profound interest in the internality of women that was then used to manipulate them.