Amit Cohen

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"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project

The highest purpose of friendship lies in a capacity to offer a fellow broken human a hopeful and

redemptive message: I - like you - have been odd; I - like you - have been mad; I - like you - have been guilty.

No one is normal, and therefore no one is beyond love and sympathy.

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101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago

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“I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that

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When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.

Programmable attention

Oh, yeah, the news and Twitter is so toxic; the human brain is not designed to manage every emergency in the world in real-time. We’re not designed to process all the breaking news on the planet in our heads. And this is one of my recent tweets, but the goal of the media these days is to make every problem your problem; that’s how they get

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