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My favorite exercise we called the "Isolation Challenge," to stay fixed in one spot for one hour shooting one roll of film. Allowing subjects to come into our frame, to cast a shadow, or to contrast with our pre-aligned backgrounds, as opposed to chasing after something already happening. Most of us are walking around too much, constantly seeking to improve our position.
End of the Line
John Free
I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly write:
1. Here’s some examples of *something* .
2. I am going to give that *thing* a name.
3. Now that we have a name, let’s discuss it as its own topic.
Examples: [edge case poisoning](https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/edge-case-poisoning/) , [mimicry](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-mimicry/) , [cleverness vs insight](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cleverness/) , [constructive and predicative data](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/constructive/) .
Making Memes
Hillel Wayne
The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the *less* valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the *Economist* shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.
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