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Working on a big video project. There's a document I'm referring to so I can make sure the video is exactly how I & those I'm working w/ envision it to be. Today I lined up b-roll of it & thought of the direction I want to take it. Once you know how to make it, attack.

Game of Thrones is the #1 most watched TV show ever. It holds the record for most Emmy Awards (59) & most Emmy nominations (161). In just about every publication, GoT is ranked as one of the best shows of all time. Ironically, it was originally written to be “unfilmable.” In the late 1970s, George R.R. Martin quit his teaching job to try to become a full-time writer. Martin had some success selling science fiction short stories and novellas, but then in 1983, his novel “The Armageddon Rag” was such a commercial failure that it “essentially destroyed my career as a novelist.” Desperate for work, Martin went out to Hollywood and secured a job as a staff writer in television. The money was good but the work was frustrating. Later talking about what spurred him to write “A Game of Thrones”—the first book in his “Song of Ice and Fire” series—Martin said, “I worked in Hollywood for about 10 years, from the late ’80s to the ’90s. I’d been on the staff of The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. All of my first drafts tended to be too big or too expensive. I always hated the process of having to cut.” So Martin left Hollywood—“I said, ‘I’m sick of this, I’m going to write something that’s as big as I want it to be.” He decided, “I’m going to write something just as big as my imagination, I’m going to have all the characters I want, and gigantic castles, and dragons, and direwolves, and hundreds of years of history, and a really complex plot, and it’s fine because it’s a book. It’s essentially unfilmable.” “The irony is, of course,” Martin said, “that’s what became filmed.” Takeaway 1: Martin began writing Game of Thrones because he was “sick of” TV producers telling him his scripts were “too big or too expensive.” “It’s very important to know what you don’t like,” Jerry Seinfeld says. “A big part of innovation is saying, ‘You know what I’m really sick of?’ … ‘What am I really sick of?’ is where innovation begins. Takeaway 2: Martin wrote the world and the characters he wanted to exist. Rick Rubin famously began making hip-hop albums because the hip-hop albums at the time didn't sound like the music in the hip-hop clubs he loved going to. Still to this day, Rubin says: "I just try to make my favorite music…I make what I want to exist." - - - “When the book started hitting the bestseller list…I immediately started getting interest from Hollywood. I had a number of meetings with people who said, ‘this is the next Lord of the Rings franchise.’ But they couldn’t get a handle on the size of the material, the very thing that I set out to do. I had all these meetings saying, ‘There’s too many characters, it’s too big — Jon Snow is the central character. We’ll eliminate all the other characters and we’ll make it about Jon Snow.’ Or ‘Daenerys is the central character. We’ll eliminate everyone else and make the movie about Daenerys.’ And I turned down all those deals.” — George R.R. Martin Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

Google just introduced Duet AI. It has the potential to change the way we work forever. Here's how it works:

Jerry Seinfeld: I'm never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I'm thinking, could I do something with that? Howard Stern: That, to me, sounds torturous. Seinfeld: Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

In the studio working on “99 Problems” with Jay-Z, Rick Rubin has the idea to start the song acapella:

@godwinj_ Totally agree. But wouldn’t rush into hiring creatives. It takes a lot of time and energy to find a perfect creative that aligns with your vision. Don’t rush. Do your due diligence. 💥 Hiring is a skill in itself.

In 1982 an icon was born, in 2023 it will be unleashed. A brief 🧵about the upcoming Our Force 1 Collection.

It’s been one year since we bought @pudgypenguins Here are 5 things I have learned since taking over. a co-thread with @waleswoosh 🧵 👇 (1/13)

And just like that. The music industry is forever changed. I recorded a verse, and had a trained AI model of Kanye replace my vocals. The results will blow your mind. Utterly incredible.

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@RunawaysNFT So excited for this project! Feeling the love coming March 14th! #HornsUP😈

3.14.23. ROTN Soft Staking will be live. Early interactions on this post will be rewarded. 👀 Like, RT, set the reminder. twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxy… More details tomorrow.

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Something about LinkedIn’s algorithm is amazing. I am definitely noticing myself spending more time on the platform not just for business but for high quality well written content.

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My all time favourite quote: “You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self doubt.”

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