Hunter S. Thompson - On Finding Your Purpose: An Extraordinary Letter
Slate Browbeat - The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction
MIT Technology Review - Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling
Wait! Wasn’t every story some sort of Hero’s Journey? Turns out, not all are shaped like one. This researchers put 1,700 novels though a sentimental analysis to map the emotional journey of the story. Turns out there are 6. Check the one of your favourite novel here.
A Story about the Power of Questions
Tennesse Williams - The Catastrophe of Success
The Week - Steve Jobs and the perils of being a corporate visionary
Caring too much about certain specifics of a vision is how I would describe it. That only one outcome counts as good enough, no matter what the costs. Despite it being another Jobs story, the point is quite profound. When do you care so much about accomplishing something that we do it at the expense of others? Or vice versa, when do you try to please others and forget yourself.
Jonathan Franklin - Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
Crazy read. So bizarre to follow the journey of this man being lost at sea for 14 months. Surviving the lack of food, the ocean and the loneliness. So impressive. While reading, images of movies like Life of Pi and All is lost continuously flash through my mind. 438 days later, he bumped into the Marshall Islands. Crazy!
Simon Parkin - The Brain in the Machine
Steve Grand. This guy! Holy smokes. He’s programming animals. But he’s not mimicking the behavior of animals in code. He’s programming them on an almost cellular level. Programming virtual neurons and enzymes. Animals get hungry, need to go hunting. To go hunting, they need to scout the surroundings. To do that they need to learn to move. Etc. It’s an insanely big project. That he does by himself!
Interview with Naomi Jacobs - The woman who woke up in the future
Michael Finkel - The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See
Click. Click. Click. "Je auto staat wel erg ver van de stoep af". Mooi verhaal van een blinde man die zichzelf heeft leren “zien”. Half vleermuis, half Daredevil. Door de echo van de klikjes weet hij precies wat waar is. Het wordt nog erger: hij racet de berg af op z’n mountain bike! Nu probeert hij andere blinden dit ook te leren. En stuit vervolgens op de beschermende reacties van blinden-instituten.