storytelling tips from the moth

over the summer, i stumbled on the moth’s live storytelling tips while doing research for a project idea that came up between me and two folks from my better selves fellowship cohort (note that the tips are especially important for live storytelling, not all storytelling).

"we wish you well in your transformation, far away"

in the first episode of ‘how to survive the end of the world’ there’s a point where autumn and adrienne are talking about forgiveness and transformation and adrienne says something to the effect of “we wish you well in your transformation… far away from us.”

on the problems of masculinity: how lack of emotional awareness is connected to impoverished decision making

​this 2nd part of this two-part post on the problems of masculinity is about connection between emotions as necessary for decisions and patriarchal masculinity as the dominant decision making paradigm in the us.

alternative futures: the web

Mycroft Holmes: Are you having a premonition, brother mine? Sherlock Holmes: The world is woven from billions of lives, every strand crossing every other. What we call premonition is just movement of the web. If you could attenuate to every strand of quivering data, the future would be entirely calculable. As inevitable as mathematics.

sonja blignaut on company culture and stories

episode 39 of the human current has been a game changer for me. the interview is with sonja blignaut from more beyond and the way she explained some of the work she does has definitively leveled up my thinking about stories and also culture. in some ways, nothing she said was new. but, like most good innovation (in my mind), she combined some elements in a new way and in a new context that made something new and excellent.