Tom Cummings

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@mkraju amazing interview with George Santos!

@MichaelEMann Great book Dr. Mann, congrats. I guess it comes down to Jack v Jack@ss, no? TS Eliot said it best: “The world will end in a whimper, not a bang.”

Any party that supports a twice impeached, four time-indicted, insurrectionist rapist for president is a party that has no right to exist.

@CaroleWainaina Carole you have bragging rights! Congrats!

Meet my son. Spotlighted as Apple Music Up Next Artist for East Africa this month 🔥 Allow me some proud mama bragging rights 🙏🏾

@bpoppenheimer I reckon ideas are recycled and bumped into the public consciousness every 20 years or so as the next crop of unimaginative English and Film students discover them. There are many more story forms and structures in the creative and aesthetic universe beyond Hollywood tropes.

1970 to 1988 is often referred to as Disney's "Dark Age." During the "Dark Age," Disney's animated films were mostly critical and commercial failures. Then, in the late 1980s, a story consultant named Chris Vogler wrote a 7-page memo that helped spur "The Disney Renaissance." In 1978, Chris Vogler was a film student at USC. For one of his classes, Vogler was reading "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" by the mythologist Joseph Campbell. That year, the first Star Wars movie was released. Vogler saw it in the theaters, and he was almost certain Star Wars was putting Campell’s ideas to work. Vogler distilled Campbell’s complex ideas into a term paper that identified how George Lucas was using mythic elements throughout Star Wars. A few years later, Vogler was hired as a story consultant at Disney where "memos were a big part of the corporate identity...following the example of [CEO, Jeffrey] Katzenberg, an absolute master [of "the memo art form"]. So Vogler adapted that term paper into a 7-page memo, in which he outlined “the twelve stages of the hero’s journey.” The hero's journey, Vogler summarizes, goes like this: The hero is introduced in his ORDINARY WORLD where... The hero receives the CALL TO ADVENTURE. The hero, reluctant at first, REFUSES THE CALL. The hero MEETS A MENTOR and is encouraged to CROSS THE THRESHOLD where... The hero encounters TESTS, ALLIES, and ENEMIES. The hero reaches the INNERMOST CAVE where he endures the SUPREME ORDEAL. The hero SEIZES THE SWORD or the treasure and... The hero starts to take THE ROAD BACK. Along the way... The hero is RESURRECTED and transformed by their experience, and then... The hero RETURNS to his ordinary world with a TREASURE, BOON or ELIXIR to benefit their world. Vogler's memo was read by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. Katzenberg made it required reading for everyone in the company, and then, he sent Vogler to work with the Animation team working on "King of the Jungle"—what would become "The Lion King." On a corkboard, the team pinned the storyboard for "The Lion King," "with the twelve stages of the Hero's Journey clearly marked as signposts." Using this 12-step program as a roadmap, "The Lion King" was released in 1994 and became the most successful animated film ever, and for a while, the most profitable film in history. Takeaway 1: The comedian Hasan Minhaj likes to say that his job is to distill coffee into espresso: "My job is to distill coffee into espresso...to take complicated things and make it simple so people can walk away after twenty minutes with a clear take and perspective.” Vogler wasn't the first to come across Joseph Campbell's complex ideas. He was the first to distill them into a practical guide for storytellers. Takeaway 2: Vogler was right. George Lucas did indeed read Joseph Campbell before bending the story of Luke Skywalker to follow the twelve steps of the hero’s journey. In fact, Lucas calls Campbell his Yoda. Not just him. Not just Star Wars. Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Aladdin, Harry Potter, Mulan, Moana,... Once you know the 12 steps, you see the hero with a thousand faces everywhere. --- “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” — Willa Cather

@BenGeskin i-let

Another “Revolutionary User Interface” is coming soon 🤏👀 Eye tracking (point) + hand tracking (click) What are your suggestions for a name?

@BCorpCommunity @JayCoenGilbert @AKassoy @EleanorH2O @bcorpuscan @BCorpEurope @BCorpUK @BCorpANZ @SistemaB @bcorpnordics @mpalazzi Thank you for your enduring commitment & foundational thinking! You have created a firm footing for the B economy and we recognize the hazards ahead. As you pass the baton to the next generation of B Corps in Europe, know that your life’s work is in trusted and inspired hands!

“We’re living in a time when progress toward an #inclusiveeconomy does not feel inevitable. In fact, while the #BCorpCommunity has great momentum, there are powerful forces, threatened by its promise, that are trying to pull us backward”—Bart, Jay & Andrew bcorporation.net/en-us/news/blo…

@NoraBateson “The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” Bill Murray, at a Tokyo bar, Lost in Translation

Arriving in Tokyo today.

@NoraBateson Earth to my dear humans, your life is not in your hands. And your life is yours to live. Unless another human is given or takes license to physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually harm you. There is enough suffering. Your time here is short, take care of one another.

My mother is 93. She tells stories of butchers performing illegal abortions on her friends pre- Roe v Wade. Friends who were raped by bosses, uncles, strangers. DNA test every baby and make it that the father is 50% responsible, time & money. Oh... Is that invasive?

@wesleydiphoko @Tzoro1 @Uber @FifiPeters Yet our values and agreements about what we want as a society can guide the use of the technologies we create, no?

"technology cannot be controlled, innovation will happen whether we like it or not" says @Tzoro1 at #SAFutureofWork session hosted by @Uber and facilitated by @FifiPeters

Ahead of #EarthDay we invite our community to reflect on the importance of #ClimateJustice. People who first suffer the consequences of climate change are least responsible for causing it. Responsible organizations need to take charge & reverse the impact created by their actions

@NoraBateson Wow Nora, ten years of stirring souls and tending to shared learning-how to express the subtle ways that Warm Data awakens the necessity of being in relationship with all that we are & what we encounter-thank you for nudging us forward to our shared humanity.

After 10 years of Warm Data (since 2012) I am finally ready to say that there's some healing beyond words that takes place. It's nothing like "therapy" -Its a shared integrity & generosity that comes w overlapping stories & insights during & after Warm Data processes. #WarmData

@NoraBateson Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life, nor cause life. Stanley Kubrick

I keep thinking the movies & series I am watching are strangely located in another era. The stories are taking place in a pre-covid world, between people who are un-initiated into the codes & gestures of co-human-ing during a pandemic. They are like period or historic pieces.

@BetteMidler Hawke👁 determines whether you are in or outside the line. It has no capacity to deal with blurred lines or human emotion.

@AudieCornish Read “The first 90 Days” By Michael Watkins, rip off the rear view mirror, breathe deeply every morning.

@AdamMGrant Adam, good one! Your reflection is close to an old saying: “a mistake is an error with a time lag and a lie attached” A dutch family company has as one of its principles: “bad news must travel fast, good news can take its time!”

There's nothing wrong with being wrong. To err is human. It becomes a problem when you choose to stay wrong. To deny error is willful blindness. New information is an invitation to question old opinions. The faster you are to recognize your mistakes, the less wrong you become.

Love the commitment to action that will inspire more grounded initiatives.

@NoraBateson Or maybe the mess is the medium?

The medium is the mess.

@NoraBateson Dumping our words and righteous tending into the cesspool of Twitter is proof positive that we have been optimised, thingafied and abstracted from anything resembling authentic public discourse. Why do we persist? The seasons they go round and round..

If ever I seem grumpy,its my frustration w the world around me trying get personal/financial leverage by methodologizing ways to save the world.Tending inter-relationing of life is an attention & learning that isnt for sale or for gaining title.Thingifying care vulgararizes life.

12,000 people per day could die from Covid-19 linked hunger by end of year, potentially more than the disease, warns Oxfam via @Oxfam oxfam.org/node/13414