Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter
Always Be Good At It.
Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.
Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter
Always Be Good At It.
DC’s Jim Lee on the Company’s Future: “We Are Still in the Business of Publishing Comics”
DC Comics handled their recent layoffs badly as they failed to explain their vision: what’s the direction of their compass? What does leadership look like for them?
And so the media just published rumours:
“How do rumors get started?
They’re started by the jealous people
And they get mad
Seeing something they had
And somebody else is holding…”
Here’s clarification. Facts Before Feelings. Now…now we can have a better informed discussion. Like I wanted to grasp the DC Comics business to better understand their current round of layoffs. This is a business not a tree house club of friendships. So my Batman feelings don’t count. This Motley Fool article was early March so pre-coronavirus but still current. This is a good start.
Layoffs are like NBA trades…it sucks to be on a winning team and then suddenly not…be.It takes time to know if it was a good move: for the people and for the org.
It’s not always a bad thing.
(We’ve all had moments we initially thought were devastating but looking back on them we see it was the start of something amazing.)
Netflix’s layoffs few years back seemed to have worked well (for more on check on that check out Marc Randolph’s book That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea).
We’ll see what happens to DC Comics.
DC FanDome is on August 22nd.
~ Sammy Younan
On average, creative geniuses aren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers, they simply produce a greater volume of work which gives them more variation and a higher chance of originality.
Quantity leads you to quality hence #GOATs like Stephen King.
Appreciate The Hate!
Haters Seek To Malign but Creators Will Define.
~ Sammy Younan
At the end of the day, people respect substance.
Virtual reality has reached a “tipping point.” It’s officially here to stay.
“Yes, virtual reality isn’t perfect. But there’s reason to believe that virtual reality technology has finally proved that it’s here to stay.”
Checking in with VR….where you at? Is it hype or is it hope?
~ Sammy Younan
The Handwritten First Draft of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing
Spike Lee wrote in his journal:
“Yesterday I began work on the script. Well, actually, I began the last work before the actual writing of the script. I put down all the ideas or scenes and dialogue on three-by-five index cards. TOMORROW, I’ll begin to write this motherfucker.”
Yes!
~ Sammy Younan
How the Publisher of Simon & Schuster Gets It Done
“I pray on things, I get a lot of opinions, and then I try — and this is the most difficult part — to hone in on my voice. Once I make a decision, I don’t believe in looking back — and I have no regrets in my career.“
Pretty much. You can doubt your path; you can doubt your choices but never ever doubt your skills. Social media sharing of anxiety is boring.
~ Sammy Younan