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- I often take care of people after suicide attempts. When they explain why they tried to die, a large proportion say they could no longer see “the point” in life. “There’s no meaning for me, no reason to live.” Most clinicians push against this idea to dissuade people from it. 1/
🚨Big announcement today: Bolt raises $393M. Wow. A couple years ago, I didn’t know if we were going to make it. Now we have $500M+ on the balance sheet. I wanted to share a bit more about where we've been, but more importantly where we're going 👇👇👇David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
by David Mamet
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reading, watching & listening to and memos
great writing style. ALL CAPS. shouting on the page.
- Can you believe that the Wright brothers went into the air without the go ahead from the FAA or *any* kind of collective decision making? They decided to fly just because they could.
- We can have more than one subscription. Boom. One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple". Do you know how many tiers the fastest growing subscription mobile apps have (upper quartile in terms of growth)? Not 1. Not 3.
- Unbundling the university: - liberal arts - technical education - summer camp - dating market - sports - co-living - salons - hedge fund - 4 year vacation - flirting w/ marxism - coming of age - alumni network - credential - prestige - insurance policy - identity - coming of age
- If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.
- Hmmm. Maybe. 1) i'm not that convinced that DTC is going to kill a lot of incumbents. If we look at share loss for Pepsi, Unilever, etc- much of that is not DTC, it is products/brands that meet unique needs of today's fragmenting consumers.
