James Stevens
@redwolfwhite
Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
A large, pale moth fluted around the room and alighted on the rim of the lampshade, imprinting its shadow on the wall. I reached over to flick it away, but my hand was stayed by a voice in my head. The souls of the people we once loved, come to watch over us.
The House Of Doors, Tan Twan Eng
the core of strategy work is always the same: discovering the critical factors in a situation and designing a way of coordinating and focusing actions to deal with those factors
Your strategy (probably) sucks
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got… Show more
Disarmingly simple. Like all good thinking.
insights and Writers Like Whoa
A quite breathtakingly, piercingly insightful articulation of what addiction truly means to so many. Remarkable.
From Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
To quote the always-brilliant Philip Kiely: “First you do X, then you make content about doing X, then you make content about that content… One day you realize you haven’t done X for six months. And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction.”
Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling
“You have the whole history of all recorded music at your fingertips for no money, and that devalues music in general. It doesn’t properly express the work that goes into it, and it certainly doesn’t express how essential music is to the human experience.”
