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Martin Scorsese has never been interested in plot as much as character. He points to VERTIGO (1958), whose story sounds absurd on paper, yet Hitchcock makes it hypnotic. The plot is just the framework. The real magic is what happens beneath it.
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Instagram Is Coming for the Living Room: Hollywood Should Be Afraid, Very Afraid
$META
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a surprising theory about the "confidence" behind great founders: it might not be confidence at all.
When the idea of confidence comes up, Bezos offers a different explanation:
"You say it's confidence, but maybe it's just trying to compensate for that... accepting that that's a human bias and trying to compensate against it."
So what is the bias?
"I think it's generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity."
Your instincts don't just make the risks look bigger than they are. They also make the opportunities look smaller than they are. Both errors push you in the same direction: toward doing less.
Bezos's correction:
"The risks are probably not as big as you perceive and the opportunities may be bigger than you perceive."
This is why he says entrepreneurs "would be well advised to try and bias against that piece of human nature."
Seen this way, the founder who looks fearless may not have a different personality from you.
They may simply have accepted that their instincts are tilted and learned to adjust for it on purpose. That's not a trait you're born with. It's a correction you can choose to make.
And if you don't make it, @JeffBezos warns there's a cost:
"Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Let the bias set your ambitions, and you'll get small results that seem to prove small was all that was possible.
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This app is… really good. Pulled in some old iPhone RAWs to try out the image formation pipeline.
Great work, @steveyedlin & co!
So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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YouTube took TV share from 6% to 16% in five years without copying a single thing on broadcast, cable or streaming.
Now 3 billion Instagram users are headed to the living room with 90-minute videos.
It took YouTube 20 years to win TV. How long will it take Zuck? $META $GOOGL
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I've been saying this for years.
You can learn pretty much everything you need to know about screenwriting by doing these three things.
Watch movies.
Read scripts.
Write pages.
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The world's best cities to retire.
Portugal FTW: Tavira, Coimbra and Porto...
For what these charts are worth, it's interesting how the clichés almost always get confirmed.
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Jim Carrey got $7 million for Dumb and Dumber. Jeff Daniels got $50,000. The movie made $247 million.
The studio didn't even want Daniels. He says they lowballed him on purpose, expecting him to say no. He said yes. The night before he flew out, his agents called him at midnight: "You're a serious actor, and this will ruin your career."
Carrey had just broken out with Ace Ventura. His first offer was $350,000, and he negotiated up to $7 million. Daniels says he hadn't worked in nine months and wanted to switch to comedy.
His answer to the agents, in his words: "Unless they cut those out of the movie, I'm gonna score."
The case for the studio: Carrey was the proven star. Daniels was a risk, and he signed the deal.
The case for Daniels: he carried half the movie. His paycheck was 0.02% of what it made.
In the video below, the host asks him straight: they lowballed you thinking you'd say no, true or false?
If you're the co-lead, should you get paid like one?
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This historic photograph shows the Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo (far right) alongside three Apache warriors—identified from left to right as Yahnozha, Chappo (Geronimo's son) and Fun (Tisnolthtos) taken in 1886 in Cañon de los Embudos, Sonora, Mexico, by photographer C.S. Fly....
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Aubrey Plaza reveals how her director pushed her to cross Robert De Niro’s boundaries during an unscripted 10-hour sex scene
"They allotted an entire day for it... I’d say about nine, a solid nine, maybe ten [hours]. And there was a lot of interesting stuff that went down"
"we didn’t totally plan out the scene. We didn’t know how it was going to go down"
"Dan would call me over and he’d be like, ‘In the next take, Aubrey, why don’t you suck on his nipples? Try that.’ And I’d be like, ‘You want me to do it?’ I’d rather not. And then he’d be like, ‘Yeah, suck on his nipples’"
"I’d try to get in there and suck on his nipples. And he was like batting me away. And I didn’t know if it was like in character or not, because you never, you know, you never know"
"then they cut the camera and then Dan called me back and he’s like, ‘Bob does not like his nipple area paid attention to. So don’t do that’"
"And I was like, ‘Great. Well, now he thinks that I wanted to do that’"
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Ever notice that in Dune humans fly spaceships between planets but don't use a single computer?
That's not a plot hole. It's completely on purpose. The movies barely explain why, but once you know, almost everything else in Dune starts to make sense.
About 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, humans did exactly what we're doing right now. They built thinking machines to make life easier. They let the machines do their work and make their decisions, hoping it would set them free.
Instead, the people who controlled those machines gained the power to enslave everyone else.
Humanity eventually fought back in a holy war called the Butlerian Jihad, and won. The thinking machines were destroyed.
To make sure it would never happen again, they made one rule sacred: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
But getting rid of computers created a problem: who would do their work? The answer was humans.
Mentats are trained from childhood to think like computers. Navigators use the spice to glimpse the future and steer ships safely through space. The Bene Gesserit spend generations pushing the human mind and body to their limits.
Every superpower in Dune exists for one reason: there are no computers.
That's my favorite thing about Dune. It's also the most terrifying. Dune isn't a future without AI. It's the future after AI.
Frank Herbert wrote that in 1965.
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Steve Ballmer paid $2,000,000,000 for the Los Angeles Clippers.
Donald Sterling paid $12,500,000 for the same team in 1981.
In 2014 the NBA banned Sterling for life and the team went on sale. Three bids came in: $1.2 billion, $1.6 billion, and Ballmer’s $2 billion. The highest price any NBA team had ever sold for was $550 million.
Ballmer lived in Seattle. He got Sterling’s wife Shelly on the phone while he was at his son’s AAU tournament. Her answer: “just tell me how much you want to pay.”
He says he went to her house knowing he had to impress her, so he researched the best player in Clippers history.
He was “all in.” People, he says, “thought I way overpaid, but I got the team.”
Do the math. $2,000,000,000 divided by $12,500,000 is 160x, in 33 years.
Forbes now values the Clippers at about $5.5 billion, 2.75x what he paid (early 2025 figure).
In the video below, he tells how he got the team and what people said about the price.
Would you have bid $2 billion when the record was $550 million?
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Fellow photo nerds, I’ve partnered with dear friends @rianjohnson and Eric Cameron to make a bespoke iPhone still camera app: Chromagraph Camera. It’s the camera we wanted for ourselves and we’re making it available for purchase on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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Catherine Schell couldn’t survive multiple takes of Peter Sellers’ Bogart impression in Return of the Pink Panther (1975) without breaking.
Blake Edwards finally had to give up and leave them in the final cut.
“Here is lurking at you, kid.” 🤣
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Mark Zuckerberg spent about $270 million on a compound in Hawaii. Under it, according to Wired, is a 5,000-square-foot shelter.
He calls it a basement.
In the video below, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang asks him about it. His answer: “I think that’s just, like, a little shelter. It’s like a basement.”
The compound covers about 1,400 acres on Kauai. Wired reported more than a dozen buildings, 11 treehouses linked by rope bridges, and a shelter behind a metal door filled with concrete. Workers reportedly signed strict NDAs.
Getting the land wasn’t quiet either. In late 2016, his companies sued to force Native Hawaiian families to sell small plots inside his estate, land their families had held since the 1800s.
After a public backlash, he dropped the suits about a month later. “It’s clear we made a mistake,” he wrote.
In the clip, he says he wants to raise “the highest quality beef in the world.” The plan: grow macadamia nuts to feed the cattle, and brew beer “because that helps them eat more.”
He later called the shelter a hurricane shelter and said the story got blown out of proportion.
The case for Zuckerberg: Kauai sits in a hurricane zone, and in the clip he says what he built there is an office and storage space.
$270 million above ground. A “basement” bigger than most American homes below it.
Chang’s question still stands: “Is there something you know that we don’t?”
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Mark Cuban's advice for young people boils down to "there's gonna be two types of companies: those who are great at AI and those who have gone out of business."
"And then there's two types of people in how they use AI: those who use AI to learn anything, and those who use AI so they don't have to learn anything."
"And if you're one of those people who uses AI so that you can learn anything, and you realize what type of companies and problems aren't being solved by AI, don't be shy to just talk to your AI."
"And I say this not just to kids, but to 50 60, 70-year-old entrepreneurs. The biggest challenge right now with entrepreneurs using AI is the comfort level of talking to your AI... there's still a lot of hesitancy."
"Just like back in the day, those first spreadsheets, people still had their 10-key adding machine, and they would check it to make sure the spreadsheets were right."
"So when you ask me, is there one thing I truly believe, it's everything. Everything will change. This is the greatest transitional technology we have ever seen, and I've been around for all of them, right? This blows them all away."
@mcuban @julesyoo @eriktorenberg
Mark Cuban scaled Cost Plus Drugs from about 100 generics to roughly 4,000 at a flat 15% markup, forcing incumbents to change prices in ways decades of policy never did.
He thinks AI could transform healthcare, but it won't fix opaque prices and broken incentives on its own.
Mark sits down with a16z's Julie Yoo and Erik Torenberg to discuss what he's learned building Cost Plus Drugs, why trust is its core product, and how greater transparency could put pressure on healthcare costs.
They also explore why drugs designed for your DNA could cost close to nothing, the football field-sized drug plant his team shrank into tractor trailer-sized pods, his plan to make generics in Dallas for less than he pays manufacturers in India, and why every company will either be great at AI or go out of business.
0:50 Cost Plus beat decades of policy
3:15 111 generics to 4,000 drugs
5:00 A drug plant shrunk to 5K sq ft
5:55 $20M drug factories in a trailer
8:10 Hospital deals with zero denials
9:50 Why health plans are rigged
14:05 1,335 pages no human can check
18:35 "Where are they f**king me over?"
22:45 Making drugs cheaper than India
26:50 Why you still need entry-level hires
31:45 Nonprofit hospitals must offer aid
35:55 DNA-matched drugs for near $0
39:30 Why AI will mean more doctors
48:00 Mark's plan: "bye bye insurers"
52:25 Why AI labs' ads are useless
56:35 Get good at AI or go out of business
YouTube: youtu.be/5UWDUD6qaM4
@mcuban @julesyoo @eriktorenberg