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Nefise Akcakir

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  • That school of film-making, which aims for realism, always destroys it at the very moment when it finally captures it, because it is more interested in imprisoning human beings in a closed world hemmed in by formulas, puns and maxims than in allowing them to reveal themselves as they are, before our eyes. Artists cannot always dominate their work. They sometimes have to be God, or else His creature. We are all familiar with the genre of modern play whose central character, a normal human being when the curtain rises, ends up a legless and armless cripple by the time the final curtain falls, af…
    A Certain Tendency of French Cinema (Une Certaine Tendance of Cinema Francaise)
  • But when we boil down what it means to be a good storyteller, it means you’re a good connector. You can find something in the shared human experience that resonates with other people. You make people feel heard, feel validated, and feel listened to. As a good storyteller, you make people feel like they’re not alone.
    How to Be A Good Storyteller: 9 Tactics to Try
  • Improve your judgment of true and false through your worldview. Read books, learn history, travel the world, experience new things. Be a generalist of knowledge and improve your understanding of the world every day. Be rigorous in learning and synthesizing your understanding of the world, and be unbiased and unattached in your association to your worldview.
    First Principles Thinking • Calix Huang
  • From there, actively choose to subvert The Pattern in the external world, in ways both large and small. That means tossing aside the formulas and Best Practices, and striving to produce creative work no one else but you could. It means choosing to play long, infinite games with your marketing and business. It means making friends and building positive sum relationships. It means trusting your intuition, telling the truth, and trusting others. It means walking your own path, even when it's uncomfortable or unpopular. But most of all, it means doing whatever it takes to nourish that inner voice,…
    The Ungated Manifesto
  • Language is always a response to the evolving world around us – we expand it when our current vocabulary fails to capture what we're observing, or have a particular desire for how we'd like the future to unfold. Naming is a political act as much as a poetic one.
    A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
  • To become exceptional you have to put in a lot of hours, but of equal importance, these hours have to be dedicated to the right type of work. A decade of serious chess playing will earn you an intermediate tournament ranking. But a decade of serious study of chess games can make you a grandmaster.
    The Grandmaster in the Corner Office: What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life - Cal Newport
  • People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel: confident, interested, optimistic, bored, reluctant, etc.
    What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple | by Andrea Pacheco | Medium