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So the camera's tilted at an angle. Is it because you're not looking through, you're looking at him?
> Yeah.
Because you don't want him to feel like he's behind the lens, is that why?
> more importantly, I can still hold the camera at the side of my head perfectly steady. But I need the audience to know that I'm paying attention to him, not the camera. What do they call that? A something tilt?
Yeah. Dutch.
> A Dutch tilt. It's a way of letting the audience know that I'm not paying attention to the camera.
Casey Neistat's SECRET to Filmmaking
Digital Spaghetti
History is mostly the study of surprising events. But it is often used by investors and economists as an unassailable guide to the future. Do you see the irony? Do you see the problem? It is smart to have a deep appreciation for economic and investing history. History helps us calibrate our expectations, study where people tend to go wrong, and offers a rough guide of what tends to work. But it is not, in any way, a map of the future.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the king’s name was Nimrod) often preach the idea of a town square, a marketplace of ideas, a centralized hub of discourse and entertainment—and we listen. But when I go back and read Genesis, I hear God saying: “My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Paul Ford
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