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May 8
THREAD:

Thoughts on “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

I’ll be thinking about this movie for a long long time. 👏 👏 👏

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#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
1. The three main characters were each wonderful. Michelle Yeo (Crazy Rich Asians, Crouching Tiger) was pitch perfect in every universe she occupied. Stephanie Hsu (Marvelous Miss Maisel) was cool as hell. And Ke Huy Quan (Indiana Jones, Goonies) was sweet and lovable.

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(And Jamie Lee Curtis was something else.)

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May 6
I like Farhad Manjoo; he's a thoughtful guy. And no doubt, we are in a period of great risk (and potentially great innovation and promise) for the nascent NFT space.

nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opi…
As someone who began as a skeptic but who is now fascinated with the potential, I'll just share a few thoughts:
1. Although NFTs and Crypto are based on the same underlying decentralized ledger technology (blockchain) and are linked in that Crypto can be and in many instances is used to buy NFTs, they are very different, IMO.
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Apr 25
A fee completely unsolicited Sunday Evening thoughts on #NFTs:

NFTs encompass a ridiculously broad and varied range of “digital stuff”

This ranges from art and collectibles to in video game assets to mechanisms of tracking title and ownership of real world assets.

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Art/collectibles are a large asset class & high profile (crazy high valuation) sales of art like Beeple’s & cultural/historical markers like Jack Dorsey’s first Tweet got attention. But the value of art in all forms is … hard to comprehend.

theverge.com/2021/3/11/2232…
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To me, the biggest reason that folks are excited about NFTs is because they provide a viable mechanism to monetize digital assets (which have always been very hard to monetize) AND there is A LOT of digital stuff out there and it’s only growing by the day.
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Apr 23
This past Summer, when I wasn't feeling well and was also wondering if I was cut out to be a lawyer, I did some #values work with a terrific coach John Harvey to help in assessing potential career/life options. Ever grateful to John and to @motherhoodmag for introducing us.

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I just looked back at the last email I sent when we left off our #values work.

I'd come up with the following 5 core values (and definitions of what those mean) for me:

1. Family = Being a good father, son, brother, partner, uncle. Always being there for family.

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2. Relationships = Connecting to others and connecting others to build things

3. Creativity = Feeding the part of me that likes to create and build, write and speak

#values @law_while_human

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Apr 17
THREAD: Media. Do Better!

"We are so divided today, so revved up, that even Disney is having a hard time bringing us together," a former Walt Disney Studios executive said.

"In trying to offend no one in this hyper-partisan moment, Disney has seemingly lost everyone."

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I hate this "both sides" framing, which has become the de rigueur default for the New York Times.

In other words, blame the victim? Or blame "woke" culture.

Gosh, it's just so much *harder* these days.

GOOD!

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This reminds me of #MAGA and @SouthPark's 'member berries

Remember the good old days when we didn't have to care about #homophobia and could just enjoy a nice #Disney cartoon?

That's an extremely narrow and - to put it as mildly as I possibly can - privileged response.

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Apr 17
THREAD:

“Storytelling is Life.”

Our power constellation of Imagination, Empathy, Connection; all revolve around it. It is the most human and most essential tool for innovation and for social change.

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#storytelling #fiction #innovation #metaverse
The ability and power to create and believe in mass fictions - money, geographical boundaries, religions - and then use them to organize & in turn to shape & change our reality is what differentiates humans from other animals. Brains 🧠 manifest.

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#storytelling #innovation
Yuval Harari. Neil Gaiman. Kurt Vonnegut. Leslie Marmon Silko. Amanda Gorman.

@harari_yuval @neilhimself @Kurt_Vonnegut @TheAmandaGorman

I think they all believe this about the great power of our stories and fictions.

I sure do. 🤷‍♂️

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