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@visakanv
Sep 21, 2020 • 19 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Okay I think I’m gonna watch Lawrence of Arabia today! Just noticed from the poster that Obi Wan (Alec Guinness) is in it. I don’t recognize any of the other names
Alright let’s go!! You might wanna mute this thread

the motorcycle - I wonder if it’s the inspiration for Naughty Dog intro screens?
(the intro screens I’m thinking of - Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us II particularly)
Wait the movie literally starts with him going on a bike ride, swerving, and then he ded 😂 wtf. Then it’s flashbacks I guess
he does have a certain David Bowie sorta energy
Sic parvis magna!
So Lawrence gets pulled out of Cairo, where he’s being a sort of charming weirdo mischievous nuisance, and he’s being sent to find Prince Faisal

the Bedouins here seem to be like the Fremen in Dune
grand and cinematic with rousing music to match
o shit his guide-friend just got pwned

“he was nothing, the well is everything, he knew that”
Oh, Obi-Wan is Prince Faisal 😂 well,,, it was 1962
Make Cordoba Great Again
So Lawrence comes up with this bold plan to cross a hostile desert with Faisal’s men to strike the Turks(?)

And halfway through this treacherous journey when they find some water he stops to soak his feet and read a book lmao
One of the men in the convoy, Gasim, is stranded without his camel. leader Ali says he will be dead by midday. Lawrence decides to go back for him - a questionable decision given the circumstances - but he succeeds! Gasim is saved! Why am I emotional? This music is great
this daring rescue turns him into a hero “for whom nothing is written”. he becomes El Laurence and they even dress him up like a sharif

Pretty similar to Dune’s Paul Atreides becoming Muad’Dib
Lawrence succeeds in brokering an allegiance between his crew of Faisal’s men and a rival tribe - when one of Faisal’s kills one from another. He is forced to execute him to keep the peace - and turns out it’s Gasim, who he saved earlier. Lawrence is troubled, but does it
2 hours in and Lawrence has had a rough ride
3 hours in and he seems to have lost the taste for revolt. There’s still 40 minutes though...?
madness and bloodlust... Shakespearean
And done! I’m glad I watched it. I can see why it’s a classic and beloved film, especially by filmmakers. Peter Toole’s expressiveness is remarkable. The music is iconic. And now I’m curious to learn about the actual history, and to look up this movies’ influences (both ways)

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May 2
one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you
the chief sculptor of the sagrada familia basilica is a japanese guy Image
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Mar 26
there are several interesting things to be said about the mass Ghibli event

First thing is that people don’t often know in advance what they’d want out of a tool until they see it for themselves. “generate any image you can think of!” draws a blank for lot of people
so lesson in there for anybody making things; customers/users need more guidance than you might think.

Second thing is I think this is an ongoing preference cascade and consensus cascade, at least some of the people who are adamantly anti-AI concede this is a cute/fun use case
for a lot of people this is the first time they’re like “ok fine I want one for myself and heck the whole timeline is doing it so what’s so wrong if I do it too”

I think this is probably a good thing. I think it gets more ppl interested in art and visuals etc
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Feb 26
favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props Image
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a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys Image
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a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment Image
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Feb 24
i haven't really bothered to make a deliberate effort to grow my twitter following or to write bangers etc in years, but i still have a clear sense of how to do it and i've advised other people who wanted to do the same, and witnessed them succeed. here are a couple of thoughts
one of the most important things you have to remember, especially if you're still a small account starting out and trying to get more attention, is that people aren't reading your tweets in isolation. your tweets are showing up as a 'beat' on a timeline
so if your tweet is something that's moderately unclear or confusing, or has too many details, or the sentiment is too complex, people's likeliest response is to scroll past it

this changes once people know you, care about you, believe that it's worth the effort to decipher you
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Feb 21
there’s a thing I often wish I could explain to people… but hilariously, it fits the same pattern I’m trying to explain:

a lot of the most interesting, valuable things you can do are things that have very small windows of opportunity Image
so in the case of matchmaking, a beginner matchmaker might think it’s a matter of finding the best possible people (according to some set of metrics) for the best possible people.

but the expert matchmaker will tell you that actually timing and seasonality etc matter more
in something like football you might think that the player with the most stamina, best striking ability, etc is the strongest

but the guy that scores the most goals is typically the guy who is most sensitive to the situation. Messi famously just walks around the pitch Observing Image
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Feb 9
one of the oldest stories we have on record is from 1850BC Egypt called "The Eloquent Peasant". It's fairly short yet interestingly complex. i'll try and retell it as quickly and entertainingly as i can

we begin with our boi Khun-Anup, a poor peasant just tryna sell his wares... Image
to get to the market he has to pass thru land that's owned by nobles. ultimately i believe the land is owned by the pharaoh, but it's administrated by the high steward Rensi, who in turn lets it be run by the local goon Nemtynakht... a ~4000yo matryoshka of bureaucracy Image
so anyway. the local goon Nemtynakht is a corrupt mf and decides to rob our boi Khun-Anup. he lays out a cloth across the narrow path, which is in between a river and the goon's private fields of barley.

Khun-Anup is like, pls sir, I can't move, I don't wanna trample your cloth
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