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"Where does your script live?"
Wanted to get into why this question is so important -- and the two separate parts to it. 1/
[Your Mileage May Vary / Parental Advisory Warning Goes Here] /2
The idea for this thread sprang from a tweet that @nevslin put out there: /3
What should I write next? A Quiet Place-esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist or a comedic re-imagining of a Greek myth? (Both features.)
— Noah Evslin \U0001f4fa\U0001f39e\U0001f58a (@nevslin) December 16, 2020
People like @MuseZack, @bryanedwardhill, and myself encouraged Zack to write the "A Quiet Place-Esque thriller with a Sixth Sense level twist." As Zack put it: /4
If it's got a great hook, the former has a better chance of selling.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) December 16, 2020
And as @bryanedwardhill pointed out:
I think about it like this. The first idea could be made by a LOT of different filmmakers, with varying levels of celebrity stars.
— Hilluminati (@bryanedwardhill) December 16, 2020
The second? A shorter list on both accounts so much harder to put together. You\u2019d need an 800 lb gorilla directing AND major A-list talent acting.
Here's New York's GAR with a WTF and a GH Thomas namedrop
Here's Indiana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a double shotted "aw hell no"
Vermont with a "get lost"
https://t.co/WdaJaPto0U
From the same article, Kansas nearly sending a John Brown monument, which would've been EPIC:
The debate was pretty hot in the GAR encampment of 1910 ( https://t.co/f88VlJVeyd some were for letting bygones be bygones.. The nation was united now, right? Then this dude from Georgia spoke up:
Emerging ideas to follow.
I am determined to find an expression of zettelkasten that makes sense to me.
— Brandon Toner \U0001f331 (@brandontoner) December 27, 2020
An idea management system that "just works".
One that allows me to sink into a state of ordered *flow*. pic.twitter.com/AWftjMIH33
My goal is to MINIMIZE RESISTANCE to MAXIMIZE FLOW.
I want to capture ALL resonant ideas, and to move things up the maturity progression as quickly as my clarity allows.
Common inputs for "literature" notes/questions:
Podcasts: @AirrAudio
Articles: @worldbrain
Twitter: @readwiseio
Books: @AmazonKindle
All sent to @RoamResearch in a standardized template using the @readwiseio integration *chef's kiss*
I make the literature (summary) notes AS I'M READING/LISTENING.
These appear as a note nested under the highlight in Roam.
Then, to make it a bit nicer, I flip it.
Rather than the literature note nested under the highlight, I nest the highlight under the literature note (as a block ref)
\u201cThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, the man whose face adorns Mt Rushmore, [...] only became President because he used his unilateral power as President of the Senate to open and count the presidential ballots in his own favor.\u201dhttps://t.co/k7l160VIsu
— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) December 29, 2020
2/ Jefferson, as VP, presided over the joint session where electoral votes from the Election of 1800 were counted. Georgia's votes suffered from several technical procedural defects that were facially apparent.
3/ As presiding officer, Jefferson had the contestable votes counted w/o giving members of Congress a chance to object. This is allegedly a precedent for allowing Pence to unilaterally count whatever slates of electoral votes he wants. But the analogy fails for many reasons.
4/ For more details of the underlying facts, see an article specifically on this incident by David Fontana & Bruce Ackerman, "Thomas Jefferson Counts Himself into the Presidency,"
5/ First, the Jefferson precedent occurred decades before Congress enacted the Electoral Count Act ("ECA"), which regulates the process of counting electoral votes - including many aspects of the VP's role. Congress has limited the VP's discretion since the election of 1800.
