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Bob Dylan asks Cohen: "How long did it take you to write Hallelujah?”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
High Agency
there’s no "one way” to do things
Paraphrasing Francis Ford Coppola: The best thing about making movies is that they’re collaborative, and the worst thing about them is that they’re collaborative
Applies to everything in life.
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
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Jesper tells a story about how he is currently working on designing a new type of organ. In preparation for this, he’s been playing an organ he bought, it in house… for the past 5 years.
Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
MY BROTHER, DID YOU NOT HEAR THIS MAN’S PRO... See more
Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
MY BROTHER, DID YOU NOT HEAR THIS MAN’S PRO... See more
Hipcityreg on the conversation between Dylan (Figma) and Jesper (Teenage Engineering)
Many people who lack action are naive and like to sit and wait for things to happen naturally. They naively think that others will care about their affairs. In actual fact, other than yourself, others will not be very interested in them. People are only interested in their own things.
G. Ng • The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom (English Version) 2nd Edition
framing is everything
But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem f... See more