David Press
@davepress
I’m a dad, reader, and storyteller from New York stuck in Kurt Vonnegut’s court.
David Press
mildmanneredreporter.substack.com
Yancey Strickler: Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation
ted.comTo listen.
60 Year Old: “This Is The One Decision People Always Regret...”
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instagram.comScott Galloway: “Nothing is as ever as bad or as good as it seems.”
Love these shots from Wake Up Dead Man.
A reminder to myself
SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin told @jolingkent that he is “tried of being overwhelmed” and feeling out of control when it comes to how AI technology could be used in Hollywood.
Astin said the use of AI in Hollywood feels like a tsunami — but he added that he wants to put his union, which represents around 160,000... See more
instagram.comThat’s the thing that so many of the AI booster “futurists” don’t get when it comes to creatives and AI and the mergers between Paramount and or Netflix and WB— that Hollywood’s unions with Sean Astin in charge of SGA, Christopher Nolan at the DGA, and WGA taking podcasts and fighters like Tom Fontana and Michele Mulroney this means that Hollywood’s unions are probably the most powerful unions in the country and that will, hopefully, protect us as creatives.
Really I should listen to this whole series because I think about it constantly.
I’ll introduce a framework I’ve synthesized from the most useful tools and strategies I’ve found for processing pain. It’s a four-step practice, where each step unlocks the next:
- L = Label your feeling
- I = Invite it in
- F = Find its function
- E = Experiment with solutions
Stop Trying to Feel Better
writers, travel and mental health
From Stop Trying to Feel Better by Ryder Carroll