Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
“A story-teller must tell his story in such a way that the reader will not feel that his time has been wasted.”
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as... See more
Rethinking what intelligence might be also allows us to rethink the modes and mechanisms which might produce it, and thus to come up with new ways of being intelligent.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“…modernity upholds growth as a supreme value for whose sake we should make every sacrifice and risk every danger… On the individual level, we are inspired to constantly increase our incomes and our standards of living. Even if you are quite satisfied with your current conditions, you should strive for more.” - Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
We all want the complicated world we live in to make sense. So we tell ourselves stories to fill in the gaps of what are effectively blind spots.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
Vita Benes
“Purposeful storytelling isn’t show business, it’s good business.”
–Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, entrepreneur, educator
–Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, entrepreneur, educator