july

Recently I’m realizing that I need a lot of time to just thing for myself. If I’m not careful I just read a bunch of stuff, and then I just regurgitate it as if it’s my viewpoint. And honestly that’s fine, if that’s your thing. But I honestly am more interested in perspectives but I’ve been thought through and kneaded like a dough over and over. 

I think we live in an age where everyone wants everything in an instant, and opinions of others are wanted constantly. But screw that, take your time and knead your dough is what I say. Don’t let others tell you otherwise. Your dough is precious - you don’t have to let others think for you all the time.

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

The beat poets had this idea of “first thought, best thought” and it sounds good but after consideration decided it’s not for me. My first thought is often just what I’ve heard elsewhere — it’s someone else’s thought. But if I take the time look at something from different angles I can get past that initial reaction and figure out if I agree with it or have a different take

Memes

gloom

Middle Management

Haha — I was trying to find this before responding above

Context matters, so in a lot of situations that makes, but I'll add this bit of /gloom (or is it /middle-mgmt material?)...

IDK where I read this: *The goal of a meeting is to end the meeting, so once the first acceptable solution to a problem comes along, the meeting is over, regardless of whether the next idea would be even better.*

I always think of that when I run meetings now.

And I close my argument with this, a quote by screenwriting instructor Robert McKee (from a now dead link): "As writers it is our responsibility, McKee intones, to never be satisfied with the first idea that pops into our head. We must always be looking beyond our initial instincts (which are inevitably clichéd) to find new methods of sharing information, new traits that can make a character more human, new ways of giving the audience exactly what they want in a way they would never expect."