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Nabokov had synesthesia so every letter had a color. I always wondered how he saw his writing, so I built a thing that lets you read his stories in the colors that he saw them in. Paste your own writing in too. nabokov-colors.vercel.app

Sf decides culture not NYC and LA If 1. message is culture and 2. medium is the message then those building the medium dictate culture. In 5 years every culture influencer will have a Brain Computer Interface, giving us their take on how dating's weird

@kamal_razzak @binghott @iamshackelford @DenneyDara @sourfraser @MatthewGattozzi @pkennedy93 @thedennis @harrydelmege_ @heyitsalexP just did

@razadots @binghott @iamshackelford @DenneyDara @sourfraser @MatthewGattozzi @pkennedy93 @thedennis @harrydelmege_ @heyitsalexP need to follow to share

I interviewed all of the best creative strategists in the world. @binghott. @iamshackelford. @DenneyDara. @sourfraser. @MatthewGattozzi. @pkennedy93 @thedennis. @harrydelmege_. @heyitsalexP. (thank you so much guys, you're all the best) If you read this document you will be able to become, train, & hire the best advertiser/creative strategist in the world. I promise you that. Hiring and training creative strategists is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make if you get it wrong. So I asked the best in the world: what separates the ones who actually produce winners from everyone else. I wrote it all up in one doc. I put a lot of time into this and there literally 0 AI, just 14 pages of straight sauce. reply "STRAT" and I'll send it over.

sf is so full of thinkers. walked through the tenderloin and every other person was just standing there mid thought. completely arrested by the weight of it all.

@iamnickdoteth Yah yah

setting up a group chat to share music: mixes, albums, stuff you made, stuff you didn't, live performances, whatever else then some magic happens... DM if you want in

hi, i'd love to attend. I've been making exclusively useless things that are interesting to me. computational confession booth - you profess your sin, an llm trained on sacred texts responds biomesound - upload a video/pic of ur colonoscopy, it will measure the health of ur colon and map it to music. and others

idk if anyone has noticed but the landing page of my personal site is interactive lol if anyone also has silly little projects that they think deserves more attention - @gormankind and I are hosting a demo night in SF next Thursday (4/16) and would love to have you there :) comment or send me a dm and I'll get a link over to ya!

Everytime an ai safety researcher leaves his job, you hope its for something human like they got caught stealing or they were accused of sexual harrassment and not that they're moving to a small village to write poetry.

Play is the frequency you’re looking for. Doesn’t matter if you’re building a community, vibecoding an app, creating a product, making music, or starting a movement. People will want to join when they feel like they’re playing and having fun. This is why gamification works so well. Create from the frequency of play and it will attract those who want to be in a playful energy with you. Plus, it’ll be way more fun to sustain your work and facilitate your mission when you’re coming from this energy. You fundamentally cannot burn out when you’re playing.

your relationship with uncertainty determines your relationship with desire to be able to stay with a desire, and feel its full potency, you need to be open to the possibility of it not being fulfilled: to be able to hold the tension of uncertainty

All roads lead to high agency, self-sovereignty, decentralization, personal branding, individuation, unique perspectives, conscious business, agentic AI, human creativity, and positive-sum thinking. Everything is trending this way. There's no denying it unless you deny reality. It's a good idea to position yourself accordingly. It doesn't matter if you think you're behind or late. There's never been a more important time to create online and work for yourself. If you're paying attention, there's really no other option.

@nopranablem @taotechic @donaldjewkes youre the man ty

@razadots @taotechic also @donaldjewkes ? x.com/aadilpickle/st…

Just moved to San Francisco. I'm a standup comedian and rn I'm Interested in making media here about the culture and where it's all going. If youre interested in chatting/collaborating, please reach out

what sf lacks in sexuality it makes up for in social unawareness

@sahitid_ im in

been obsessed with the idea of hosting a massive scavenger hunt through SF this summer ~3-4 hour commitment on a saturday. would anyone actually do this?

The woman who inspired Before Sunrise never saw the movie. She died in a motorcycle accident seven weeks before filming even started. Richard Linklater met Amy Lehrhaupt in a toy shop in Philadelphia in 1989. They spent the whole night walking the city from midnight to 6am talking about everything, and he turned that one night into a script. Took him 11 days. The casting search lasted nine months. Jennifer Aniston auditioned before she ever got Friends, and Gwyneth Paltrow tried out too. The role went to Julie Delpy. Amy died on May 9, 1994. She was 24. Linklater kept waiting for her to show up at a screening, maybe tap him on the shoulder and say “Hey, that was our night.” He waited through the premiere. Waited through the sequel nine years later. Didn’t find out she was gone until 2010, when a friend of hers put the pieces together and wrote him a letter. He kept making the films. Brought Hawke and Delpy back every nine years, letting them age on screen in real time. Before Sunset (2004) was shot in 15 days for $2 million. Before Midnight (2013), same thing, 15 days, under $3 million. That last one is dedicated to Amy. All three films together cost $7.5 million to make and earned $61.5 million worldwide, and both sequels got nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The entire trilogy cost less than a single Janet Jackson music video that Kahn himself directed. The Library of Congress added Before Sunrise to the National Film Registry earlier this year. It’s now one of 925 films the government considers worth keeping forever. Linklater turned a single night with a woman he’d never see again into an 18-year trilogy. He just didn’t know the “never” part when he started.

@arianafont @davefontenot @alifdotbuild

SF, we need a venue. April 22nd. 7–9pm My brother @davefontenot and I are launching the Human OS Tour. 50-100 seats. Professionally recorded One night. One talk. Two siblings on a mission to fix how modern life is breaking the human body and mind. Who has the perfect space?👇

@aadilpickle @jmailarchive would love to check it out!

btw we rented out a theater to screen the @jmailarchive documentary Donald made happening tomorrow at 8pm in Marina I wanna pack it with people who'd appreciate it - if that's you, comment or DM and I'll send you the link

"Open the fuckin Strait" I whisper to my wife as I snuggle up beside her