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I'm on Substack now! For months I've been posting my #ScreenshotEssay entries here on bsky but this just wasn't the place for it. I really tried but was never able to connect with folks over writing here, sadly.😔 I'm also posting my 1k-words of daily fiction over there too.
Monday - May 19, 2025 #40 | An antidote for human loneliness Help your people find you. Help the machines help you. Below is a selected excerpt of my daily Chrome browsing history. For a while now, I've been trying to figure out what to work on next. I wanted to leverage #atproto and also attack human loneliness. In 2023, the Surgeon General of the United States declared America to be amidst a "loneliness epidemic". Suffering loneliness is equivalent to "smoking a pack of cigarettes a day" and everywhere I looked, it felt like people were struggling to find their people. (Which is bad for many reasons. ☹️) This site's source is open and freely available for mix/reuse. 👍 I have a working a theory that "stated preferences" are nearly useless and that "revealed preferences" are much more representative, especially over a sufficient longtitude of time. Moving forward, I hope more and more people will share their browsing history. (And once the Meta Raybans go mainstream, their life history!!) Nowadays, we all lead such rich and fulfilling interior lives. YouTube, Kindle, Spotify, and an endless stream of worthwhile pursuits and diversions are available via our magic rectangles. Since we all spend so much time online, sharing that digital trail is, I believe, the highest-signal way of how others can discover you. Increasingly, we'll make friends less and less IRL first. Rather, I think we'll increasingly meet online first and then translate our most promising relationships that start virtually into IRL relationships as a second step. Be algorithmically legible. We're at the precipice of a new era where Very Online People are about to inherit the earth. And the people who opted out (due to very valid privacy concerns) are honestly, IMHO, all about to be unceremoniously left behind. If the agents and algorithms can't see you, then they can't hire you. They can't connect you. They can't help you. And everything is seriously about to goto agents 24/7...
Mon-May 19, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #40: "An antidote for human loneliness"
"Be algorithmically legible... If the agents and algorithms can't see you, then they can't hire you. They can't connect you. They can't help you. And everything is about to goto agents…"
🔗 robertl.in/history 🏷️ #r2025 #rl40
Tue-May 13, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #39: "The Eye of Sauron"
"If ever there were a time to wonder ab what it means to be human; ab what it means to live a good life; ab why we're here at all; I humbly posit that time is now."
1. @now.robertl.in
2. @dame.is
3. bsky.app/profile/alic...
#r2025 #rl39
Thursday – May 1, 2025 #38 | Art history majors get the last laugh Thoughts on Midjourney Last weekend I started playing around with Midjourney ($10/mo; there is no longer a free tier). It's been fun because with the tool, I've been able to generate some breathtaking art. I feel like I've also been able to glimpse a vision of the creative future. For the longest time (and I was guilty of this), lots of people dismissed prompt engineering. It just sounded so squishy, overly-flowery, and self-important. Just so totally non-serious, honestly. But after actually using Midjourney, I'm starting to come around. The best prompts I've seen are multi-paragraph with technical vocabulary and referential knowledge. Many folks think prompting is "simply typing words". But that's akin to describing programming as "simply typing words". Words have precise meanings. Words like aperture and focal distance; the difference between soft colors and warm colors; knowing about futurism and brutalism and their aesthetics. You'll be able to maximally leverage MJ if you're fluent with art styles/artists/movements/epochs. Pop-culture knowledge also helps too! (eg. Makoto Shinkai is hugely popular, as is Greg Rutkowski.) Put another way: the closest analogue I can give —again, after having actually played around with MJ now— is that I now think of LLMs as an abstraction layer between human intent and the final product akin to something like Java and Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Back in the initial days of computer programming, people used physical punch cards to express their intent and instructions. Then eventually came Assembly. And now we have high-level languages enormously accessible to just about everyone. The same abstraction tools are now coming for art and creative pursuits. It's poetic all that 15th century esoteric cocktail knowledge that art majors spent tens of thousands of dollars acquiring so many years ago has, now at long last, paid off...
Thu-May 1, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #38: "Art history majors get the last laugh: Thoughts on Midjourney"
"I now think of LLMs as an abstraction layer between human intent and the final product, akin to something like Java & the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)."
#r2025.05 #r2025 #rl38 #art #ai #midjourney
Thursday – April 17, 2025 #37 | What is "community" in a company? And what is "community" in a country? Every year, our company has an annual Awesome Week where we all get together. Previous years, we did it in-person but this year, we're doing it remotely. I had a few thoughts, so I thought I'd jot them down! First, We moved to only having half-day sessions– the entire morning into early afternoon. I love this. It gives me time to reflect on all the presented material. Previously, they were whole-day sessions which, for me at least, was honestly exhausting and overwhelming. Now I have a few hours in the afternoon to catch up on client work (email support, answer Slack questions, meetings) plus reflect on what I actually absorbed in the morning sessions. What I enjoy about Awesome Week every year is that it provides a platform that introduces questions; it plants the seed in our heads to think about interesting things that we otherwise may've never pondered. One question we got asked was, "What does community mean to you?". For me, I crystalize around the fact that in a community (at least in a company setting), means everyone is exerting comparable effort towards a common goal. One of our speakers said something great, "A company can compensate you for your labor. But it can't force you to bring your 'best selves' to work." So how does a company get people to bring their best selves? For me, personally, what my colleagues and peers around me do really sets the tone and culture. I believe that "no one likes being the sucker". Like, we've all been on that group project back in our school days where one person did significantly less work but everyone got the same grade. Those types of group dynamics foster resentment. After a while, if sustained, everyone starts putting forth less effort. Standards and quality deteriorate. So on, so forth. Culture is hard and culture is the glue that keeps a community together...
Thu-Apr 17, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #37: "What is 'community' in a company? In a country?"
"It means when I show up every day, everyone else is exerting as much effort towards a common goal as I am."
1. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
2. w.wiki/DqXN
3. youtu.be/coS2CdNd7Io
#r2025.04 #r2025 #rl37
Saturday – April 5, 2025 #36 | What is "talent"? It takes more than effort and an attitude of learning + replying to Ted Chiang Got some strong reactions to my last essay so here are some more thoughts: First, I totally understand that talented people need to put in work. That's table stakes. Anyone who is good at anything has put in the work. Thousands of hours at the gym shooting the ball at the hoop. Hundreds of hours at the piano practicing. Obviously, effort and an attitude of learning is necessary. But to be crystal clear: effort and grit are not sufficient. Anyone who thinks effort and attitude is enough to get good at art is someone with talent. Someone who has not spent hundreds/thousands of hours trying to improve at something but failing over and over until just giving up. If effort and a learning attitude is all that's necessary, why aren't there more Steph Currys? Literally, you could simply put someone out at the 3-point line and just have them practice making baskets all day. This is because Curry has talent. Yes, he's obviously practiced a ton. But additionally, for whatever reason, he's able to launch the ball pretty consistently with exactly the right spin, arc, velocity at the hoop to make the basket. Think of all the hand-eye coordination happening in milliseconds; all of the fast-twitch muscles firing. (And he's able to do it in the heat of the game with the clock winding down and everything on the line.) In short, more often than not, whatever he's able to visualize in his mind's eye, he's able to physically manifest into reality. I think about drawing in a similar vein. To draw something aesthetically pleasing requires making thousands of individual decisions. How thick to make this line? What color to shade here? How much shadow to apply there? Etc...
Sat-Apr 5, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #36: "What is 'talent'? It takes more than effort and an attitude of learning + replying to @ted-chiang.bsky.social"
"AI has helped *quantize* the choices that go into creating art."
1. archive.ph/igtnw
2. youtu.be/b8yscBsO42c
#r2025.04 #r2025 #rl36 #ai #llm #art
![Thursday – April 3, 2025
#35 | Playing God: Who gets to be an artist?
Thoughts on OpenAI's "Ghibli-style" image generation release with GPT-4o
First, I totally empathize with Miyazaki's distress and sentiment that "[AI animation] is an insult to life itself." I think we all do. The man is 84-years old. Studio Ghibli is his life's work. Millions (myself included) grew up on My Neighbor Totoro and other beloved Studio Ghibli movies. The Ghibli-style is renown for being entirely handcrafted with Miyazaki closely overseeing every single frame with immaculate attention to detail. Famously, this single four-second crowd scene took Studio Ghibli 15 months to complete.
To watch a cold, soulless machine achieve the same result with near no effort pains the human heart. To add further injury, OpenAI did not give single bit of remuneration to Miyazaki to train on Studio Ghibli's work. There is a natural deep-seated injustice that one instinctively feels. How can this possibly be legal or ethical? In what Universe is this possibly okay?
After pondering this a lot though, my thinking changed. Another way to look at things: a lot of people have dreams of being a creative person. A musician. An artist. A writer. For example, when I was a child, I absolutely worshipped Calvin and Hobbes. I loved everything Bill Watterson drew and as a kid, I spent hundreds of hours trying to mimic Watterson's style and also draw anime and manga. But eventually I gave up. Nothing I drew, despite my hundreds upon hundreds of hours of trying, was any good. I had friends who could effortlessly draw beautiful comics and cartoons. But God had not given me those talents. So eventually I went on to study engineering in college because I had no artistic gifts. But my dreams of being a cartoonist never disappeared...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wlpm2j3d6can6quf5hotdcc/bafkreifo5ybyxwpygwsnto72db62arynpkrb5lwlxbed4mb5ubsljfxx7e)
Thursday – April 3, 2025 #35 | Playing God: Who gets to be an artist? Thoughts on OpenAI's "Ghibli-style" image generation release with GPT-4o First, I totally empathize with Miyazaki's distress and sentiment that "[AI animation] is an insult to life itself." I think we all do. The man is 84-years old. Studio Ghibli is his life's work. Millions (myself included) grew up on My Neighbor Totoro and other beloved Studio Ghibli movies. The Ghibli-style is renown for being entirely handcrafted with Miyazaki closely overseeing every single frame with immaculate attention to detail. Famously, this single four-second crowd scene took Studio Ghibli 15 months to complete. To watch a cold, soulless machine achieve the same result with near no effort pains the human heart. To add further injury, OpenAI did not give single bit of remuneration to Miyazaki to train on Studio Ghibli's work. There is a natural deep-seated injustice that one instinctively feels. How can this possibly be legal or ethical? In what Universe is this possibly okay? After pondering this a lot though, my thinking changed. Another way to look at things: a lot of people have dreams of being a creative person. A musician. An artist. A writer. For example, when I was a child, I absolutely worshipped Calvin and Hobbes. I loved everything Bill Watterson drew and as a kid, I spent hundreds of hours trying to mimic Watterson's style and also draw anime and manga. But eventually I gave up. Nothing I drew, despite my hundreds upon hundreds of hours of trying, was any good. I had friends who could effortlessly draw beautiful comics and cartoons. But God had not given me those talents. So eventually I went on to study engineering in college because I had no artistic gifts. But my dreams of being a cartoonist never disappeared...
Thu-Apr 3, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #35: "Playing God: Who gets to be an artist?"
"For the first time in history, thanks to our collective ingenuity & relentless industry, man now has a shot at leveling the playing field; of giving so many of us a chance at artistic creation."
#r2025.04 #r2025 #rl35
Tue-Mar 25, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #34: "How do billionaires support art they love?"
"But I also wonder: how many artists reject money from really rich people because they fear their art would be irredeemably tarnished sheerly by association?"
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl34 #billionaires
Saturday – March 22, 2025 #33 | Breaking laws in the name of innovation How Spotify and Uber won: break the law, win the market, settle and "seek forgiveness" later This is a weird piece for me to write because at heart, I'm personally an ardent rules-follower. I like getting the gold star (one reason why I love social media so much: adulation from random strangers! 🥳) and I do what I'm told. (And to be fair, I do believe this quality has helped me immensely in being both a good employee and a good husband.) When it comes to startups and business though, I've definitely noticed a pattern: many of the success stories have often outright flagrantly broken laws to get to where they are today. Two companies that come to mind are Spotify and Uber. In the beginning, Spotify knew it had a flywheel problem: users would not subscribe if they didn't have a huge music library to stream. Labels wouldn't license music if there wasn't a huge subscriber base though. People may wonder why other streaming services never won the market first? Why did the Amazons, Googles, and Apples of the world, given their massive resources, lose the music streaming game? Because they followed the laws. Spotify got its start by initially streaming a lot of music it didn't explicitly have rights for. Eventually, in 2017, Spotify did finally agree to a $43 million settlement; but it was a small price to pay. Today, Spotify has over 30% of the global music streaming market and is the biggest music streamer on the planet; its net income was $1.2 billion USD in 2024. Uber has a similar story. As far as I can tell, Travis Kalanick's greatest insight with Uber was that he could simply just break all the laws and "seek forgiveness" later. Taxi services is a very regulated industry in many places of the world and in our biggest cities, medallions can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uber basically just ignored all those laws and did its thing anyway...
Sat-Mar 22, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #33: "Breaking laws in the name of innovation"
"I guess the closest thing to a lesson could be: for people who have the risk appetite and conscience for it, breaking the law doesn't matter as long as you win."
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl33 #spotify #uber
Tue-Mar 18, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #32: "Rejecting Dark Forests"
"In summary, unless you're super-famous like Yancey & have other specific considerations, I really encourage people to share publicly."
1. www.ystrickler.com/2021-the-ble...
2. @timour.bsky.social
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl32 #darkforest
Sun-Mar 16, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #31: "Celebrating commutes"
"Commuting is a chance to temporarily exist in a liminal, interstitial space... if I were a religious person, I'd say something like, 'God is speaking to me through Spotify.'"
1. youtu.be/ySFeL-ipAz4
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl31 #woowoo
Sat-Mar 15, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #30: "What core values constitute a good life?"
"A good life, IMHO (for me at least), is one where by the end, I've touched the lives of billions. Anything short of that, I shall consider failure."
1. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl30 #life
Fri-Mar 14, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #29: "My girlfriends have unionised" - Random thoughts about Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
"A total male power fantasy, 100%. Rooney wins!! I was on my feet cheering. 5/5 stars."
1. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl29 #booksky
Monday – March 10, 2025 #28 | Robert v2: My legacy project My mission in life is to build an online repository that contains my every belief, value, and preference By sharing my thoughts online, I hope you can get to know me. But I also have another motivation in consolidating and centralizing online my every belief, value, and preference. I'm hoping to build a repository of me to give the fancy AI models that exist a very high quality corpus to train on. My hope is that, in time, I will be able to build a "Robert v2 (Rv2)". The dream of Robert v2 is that it would be a perfect simulacrum of me. For anyone who's watched Westworld S1, that's basically the idea. To build such a high-fidelity replica that you wouldn't be able to distinguish whether an email reply or Slack message actually originated from me or from Rv2. To realize this dream though, I need to begin labeling the training data. Unstructured data is fine, and lord knows we all certainly generate a ton of that. But orders of magnitude even more useful is labeled data. If I had kids then maybe it might be different. Maybe I'd be focusing more on propagating my values and beliefs via my offspring, the way generations of humans have always done. Progeny has historically been one's legacy. But since for various reasons that option is not on the table, Robert v2 will instead now be what I dedicate the sum total of my remaining years too. Concretely, several operating procedures now stem from this new prime directive. Moving forward, it's not enough to just produce the final result. But I will be documenting my thought processes and motivations as well. I need to train the AI the best I can not just how to emulate my final results, but why I got to where I got. Why I've made the decisions I did. First principles, my value matrices, all of it. As the old Hemingway quote goes: "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name."
Mon-Mar 10, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #28: "Robert v2: My legacy project"
"As Hemingway said: 'Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground & the last time someone says his name.' With Robert v2, I'm going to try to never die."
1. www.goodreads.com/quotes/9556005
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl28
Wed-Mar 5, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #27: "The future of AI video entertainment"
"We brought this upon ourselves & smart players like TLC are now moving to meet demand. Numbers+money don't lie. As Tavlin astutely observes elsewhere: Netflix's "mind-numbing anticinema" has won."
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl27
Tue-Mar 4, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #26: "Where it all went wrong" + "The way back"
"If you think humans are more than just cogs in some great machine, then please find a way *to pay for something*."
1. youtu.be/yHTT0sg3Teg
2. youtu.be/5zUndMfMInc
3. @timour.bsky.social
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl26
Sun-Mar 2, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #25: "Kingdom: The Voice of God"
"This is the first fiction short story I've ever finished…if you'd like to see more, please lmk!"
1. r002.github.io/kingdom
2. writersofthefuture.com
3. www.goodreads.com/quotes/5012
4. w.wiki/3ohM
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl25 #story
Sat-Mar 1, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #24: "One day my tweets are all I'll leave behind"
"My personal site will be my life project. It updates at least weekly with what I'm working on."
1. w.wiki/3jQQ
2. w.wiki/3jHK
3. w.wiki/3hHB
4. w.wiki/3itk
5. w.wiki/DFeZ
6. robertl.in
#r2025.03 #r2025 #rl24
Fri-Feb 28, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #23: "Sheeple" + "The 90/9/1 Rule"
"One of my dreams is for the second half of my life to try to climb into this rarified air of the 1%. *The creators, the makers.*"
1. a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/cre...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-23 #dreams #goals #sheeple
Mon-Feb 24, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #22: "Noblesse oblige + why 'bread & circuses' are important"
"But bread & circuses are *important*. They contribute to macro-socioeconomic stability."
1. w.wiki/BXHX
2. w.wiki/DCFn
3. bsky.app/profile/robe...
4. w.wiki/7YZT
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-22 #sports
Screenshot of my cred.blue description
cred.blue is awesome! I really wouldn't worry too much ab detractors. Yes, obviously we should try to be thoughtful & considerate. But that said, you can't please everyone! Having thick skin on the web is (IMHO) the way to go!
PS. Btw, it'd be cool if you added a #ScreenshotEssay poster class!! 🙂
Sat-Feb 22, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #21: "It costs what it costs"
"In the famous words of Henry Ford: 'If you need a machine & don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.'"
1. world.hey.com/dhh/you-ll-p...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-21 #life #money #dhh
Friday – February 21, 2025 #20 | Start the day right + "go when the spirit takes you" You're about to run a marathon. The night before the big race, are you going to stay up all night, do heroin, and get totally plastered? Of course not. Before any big exertion of effort for any considerable stakes, you're of course going to eat and sleep right. And also do everything in your power to properly prepare. When the big moment arrives, you want to be able to do your best; to have placed yourself in the best possible position for likely success. I encourage folks to think similarly about each and every single passing day. I know days can (and often do!) blend together. Into one giant amalgamated mush of time, that seemingly stretches on indefinitely. But our days are not indefinite. They are numbered. With each and every single day that passes, our lifeforce dwindles a little; our overall life that much shorter. Aside from eating and sleeping right though, the one most useful practice I've found is to "go when the spirit takes you". Yes, having a proper, disciplined, and regimented schedule would be nice. But occasionally, inspiration strikes. For me, as I've aged, the limiting factor honestly hasn't been time or even money. But it's actually been energy. Sometimes, I get home, and even though I have tons of time, I just can't crank out any creative work. (Coding is different; coding is more blue-collar in that way; I can usually just force myself to code as coding is more often than not simply just an act of menial labor. But creative writing, I alas cannot.) Thus, when the muse does deign to visit, make sure to capitalize on her inspiration!!
Fri-Feb 21, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #20: "Start the day right + 'go *when* the spirit takes you'"
"For me, as I've aged, the limiting factor honestly hasn't been time or even money. But it's actually been *energy*."
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-20 #life #muse #creativity #coding #writing #energy
Sun-Feb 16, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #19: "Two ways to start the day"
"Working sessions should be no longer than four hrs. If you're highly focused, directed, & intentional, four hrs is enough."
1. www.youtube.com/shorts/sX0Z3...
2. x.com/tferriss/sta...
3. w.wiki/GPF
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-19
Saturday – February 15, 2025 #18 | Sometimes, disruption is the only way forward There is a tendency for all systems to calcify and grow sclerotic over time. This is true of individuals, organizations, nation states. Inertia catches up with even the best of us. Therefore, for systems to remain dynamic and resilient, it is critical that they suffer periodic shocks. Massive earthquakes that shake foundations to their very core. In nature, we see this with forest fires. Every so often, a giant blaze erupts and it is good for a fire to burn to clear out all the undergrowth. All that ash and soot is actually valuable to seedlings and new forest life that will come after. And likewise, in business we see this too: Blockbuster had to die so we could have Netflix and; cassette tapes and CDs died to give us MP3s and streaming. Each industry revolution was seismic seachange. The circle of life goes on. Disruption is vital to vibrancy. Because the alternative is a world where everything is simply static. People may promise slow and incremental change. But all systems (think healthcare or higher education in the US) eventually become so large and so complex that all progress grinds to a halt. And there become so many considerations and so many stakeholders, that it simply becomes impossible to do anything. Sometimes, the only way forward is to just go around ripping out Chesterton Fences, left and right. The desire to first understand first/second/third order effects is admirable, in theory. But at some point, such understanding is just not realistic. It's not that we don't wish to; it's simply that it's not possible. The situation is too complicated. There are too many variables, too many emergent properties, too many constituencies.
Sat-Feb 15, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #18: "Sometimes, disruption is the only way forward"
"There is a tendency for all systems to calcify & grow sclerotic over time. Inertia catches up with even the best of us."
1. fs.blog/chestertons-...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-18 #complexity #life #healthcare
Thu-Feb 13, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #17: "Things that make me happy"
"Working on personal projects."
"Reading Calvin+Hobbes by a cozy fire wrapped in blankets."
"Learning new things+learning enough new things that I change my mind."
1. www.reddit.com/r/calvinandh...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-17
Tuesday – February 11, 2025 #16 | Brilliance can be a curse You know who was a pretty smart guy? Ted Kaczynski. A mathematics prodigy accepted to Harvard at age 15. Another smart person: Luigi Mangione, his private highschool's valedictorian. Both of these people were undeniably brilliant, possessed tremendous worth ethics, and were incredibly determined. But at some point, both took a turn for the worse. One, of course, can only speculate what they were thinking when they committed their crimes. But I strongly personally believe that loneliness and isolation were a huge part of it. In everyday society, we rely on social interaction with others (family/friends/colleagues/strangers) to check our thoughts and beliefs. To figure out what is "right" and what is "wrong". What is acceptable and what is not. No one exists in a vacuum– we exist with others. We exist in a context. If you are someone with some intelligence, I even more strongly urge you to not spend too much time alone. Get out, meet people, do things with others. I know it can be annoying to have to be wrenched away from one's beautiful interior world that is endlessly fascinating and insatiably curious. I totally get that. But social interaction isn't just "nice-to-have"; I believe it's a "must-have". Else, you really risk going off the rails.
Tue-Feb 11, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #16: "Brilliance can be a curse"
"If you're someone with some intelligence, I even *more* strongly urge you to not spend too much time alone. Get out+meet ppl."
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kac...
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_M...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-16
Thu-Feb 6, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #15: "Hero Ball"
"At one point –I'll never forget this– the announcers even commentate, "James is playing like a man among boys.""
1. youtu.be/LpAJYrY-lJ8
2. www.studenthousing.org/buildings/ma...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-15 #nba #LeBronJames #life #marymount
Wed-Feb 5, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #14: "My childhood dream"
"The creative act is not some optional flight of fancy. But rather, for me at least, necessary as food, water, or sleep. Creativity is vital."
1. youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q?t=425
2. kk.org/thetechnium/...
#r2025.02 #r2025 #r2025.02-14 #writing
Mon-Feb 3, 2025
#ScreenshotEssay #13: "The importance of child labor pedaling popcorn as a Boy Scout"
"But much of that humiliation and shame soon turned to anger… it turned into *fuel*…"
1. www.awana.org
2. www.hoac-bsa.org/popcorn
3. www.reddit.com/r/BSA/commen...
#r2025.01 #r2025 #r2025.01-13
