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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

I bet my life savings Christopher Nolan is the last great director of this century.
Not because of Inception, Interstellar, or Oppenheimer.
But because he found a secret method to irresistible storytelling:🧵 https://t.co/FTWm5ElpZi

Christopher Nolan doesn’t use detailed outlines.
Instead, he “draws shapes and diagrams and other structural things.”
Like this — the plot map Nolan used for Inception.
Here’s a breakdown: https://t.co/pEq0xLkpqQ
The Kuleshov Effect
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Noah Brier (@heyitsnoah) uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup I’ve ever seen.
He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian (@obsdmd) vault. He does it all from his... See more
Dan Shipper 📧x.comthe Kuleshov Effect.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Who do you think is the most insane programmer of our current era?
I think it’s Evan Wallace (cofounder of Figma):
- Basically rebuilt the browser rendering stack to run in the browser for Figma
- Built CRDTs to run Figma’s multiplayer tech for millions of users
-... See more
zack (in SF)x.comPulp Fiction is the 13th most successful indie movie ever.
It earned $500M+, revived John Travolta’s career, and turned director Quentin Tarantino into a superstar.
It uses what I call “Jenga Storytelling” to hook you right from the start.
Instead of going... See more
Nathan Baughx.comStudents 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…... See more
Nathan Baughx.com