Clapping on two and four since 1971. UCLA music, PHI 🤘🏾BETA 🤘🏼 SIGMA 🤘🏿Spring ‘90 he/him
Sacramento, CA
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Hey @EspeSpalding thanks for the inspiration! Check out these kids at Folsom High and their rendition of #iadoreyou Hope you dig it...
20190111FHSJC 2019JEN Augustine youtu.be/Pa20fzr2W1s via @YouTube
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Okay, billion dollar idea.
An app that you use when you're waiting in long lines. The app finds people nearby who will stand in your place so you can go to the bathroom, get a snack, etc.
Call it "AirBRB"
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This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often.
In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs.
At the beginning you could see student "Maggie Rogers" drenched with the absolute terror of sharing this with him.
Pharrell is there just trying to keep his excitement in.
The guy couldn’t wait to tell her this song is the bee’s knees.
After he listened to a song called “Alaska”, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”
24 hours later, someone posted the clip to Reddit.
It blew up and the rest is history. Grammy nominated, millions of followers etc.
And Maggie responded to the Reddit thread (i'll share screenshot in the next tweet).
This story I find so cool because it inspires other artists to share what they got.
We all can all connect with the fear of showing our work. It ain't easy.
And to have a unique POV like Maggie. Easy to copy, harder to have something unique.
I’ve got a bunch of designs, creations that have never seen the light of day.
This video inspires me to publish more.
My point of sharing this video:
Publish your art anonymously.
Or publish your art proudly as yourself. Bonus points if it's one of a kind work.
But publish your darn art.
This is your new week's energy.
This is your 2024 energy.
Go get 'em.
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If you enjoyed this, go listen to some Maggie Rogers. And thank you to Pharrell for being so supportive to an up and comer.
And go follow me for more stories like this @gregisenberg, so you get more of it in your feed
I share stories about internet communities, free startup ideas and more. (link in bio for more info about me)
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"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
Rod Serling
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By far the most powerful Israeli response I have seen.
This 19 year old girl survived the horrific massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri.
This is her message to her fellow Israelis and to the world.
Watch the whole thing.
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Real world problem:
You are a sovereign nation. A neighboring country attacks you, targets your civilians, brutally killing & kidnaping them. You must respond. But the problem is the country that attacked you is ruled by a terror organization that does not value life, not the lives of your people & not the lives of their people. For 16yrs, they’ve used their civilians as human shields, so their civilian & terror infrastructures are virtually one and the same
So I ask the all too familiar chorus of Israel critics, what would YOU do? Don’t just take a shot at Israel. If you were Israel, dealing with what Israel must deal with as spelled out above, what would YOU do?
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Some of us have decided to read text messages sent from the last moments of people’s lives in Israel. Yes, this is disturbing and heartbreaking, but it’s something I have decided to do in hopes it can continue to convey the depth of pain and suffering the Jewish people and the Israeli population are experiencing as we defend our right to exist. #TheLastMessage #HamasisISIS
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I am a life-long supporter of the Palestinian search for freedom and statehood , but this morning am feeling only utter revulsion, horror and depression at the press descriptions of yet more innocents massacred. No one, least of all children, should ever have to endure violence and fear, and the kind of atrocity carried out by Hamas is only going to intensify the ongoing oppression, dispossession and occupation, as well as provoking retaliatory waves of bombings and killings which are already leading to the deaths of countless more innocent children. Hamas has not only committed a barbaric outrage with its abominable ISIS-like tactics, I fear it has also done incalculable and lasting damage to the just cause of their own people, entrenched the hawks and haters and ethnic cleansers, and made the search for peace, justice and freedom more difficult than ever.
As moving and inspiring as this is, I see little boys being called to war. Reminds me of American teenagers in WWII responding to fight against the terrorism of their time. Yes, courageous. Yes, admirable. And yes, tragic. These could be my boys.
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Kids today stay in the house and fart around all day on their phones. In the 70s, we were outside chasing greatness. And sometimes we achieved it. Sail high into neighborhood immortality, you sweet bastard.
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"What you fear / will not go away: it will take you into / yourself and bless you and keep you."
William Stafford:
ALT There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot—air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That’s the world, and we all live there.
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Does this baby deserve a grant from the Ministry of Silly Walks? I certainly see some excellent form! 🎩
Repost • @sverigesroligastebarn @angelinavarback #sillywalks #montypython
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Two kids smoking, one kid flipping the bird, I think another kid may be taking a hit of nitrous oxide. Look, it was the 70s.
