Troubleshooting Life book links

There are a LOT of hyperlinks in my first book, Troubleshooting Life.

Only in the e-book version would it make sense to have any links.

I compiled a list of links associated with each day so that all readers can have easy access to all the links I refer to in the print book.

At first, I tried to do these citations with ChatGPT. Then I started using The Chicago Manual of Style and MyBib.

The URL of this post will be in the book. I hope I didn’t miss any links!


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INTRO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/big-tech-companies-are-looking-at-hollywood-as-the-next-stage-in-their-play-for-the-cloud/?guccounter=1

https://sfi.usc.edu/collecting

https://ach.org/toward-anti-racist-technical-terminology/

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (goodreads)

Bob Balaban Wikipedia

Ken Auletta Q&A C-SPAN YouTube

Masters of Scale Barry Diller podcast

Cass Warner, The Brothers Warner Documentary (website)

GMAT 49 Hr Math | Quant | GMAT 760 Instructor, Jackson Kailath

JANUARY

1 January 1

On the shortness of life by Seneca, translated by John W. Basore, Chapter I (Wikisource)



2 January 2

Christensen, Clayton M., James Allworth, and Karen Dillon. How Will You Measure Your Life? New York: Harper Business, 2012. (Amazon)



3 January 3

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. (Project Gutenberg)



4 January 4

Michel de Certeau “Reading as Resistance”

HBO. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. "Trump vs. Truth: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." Aired February 12, 2017, on HBO. Accessed [Month Day, Year]. URL

NBC News. Meet the Press. "Alternative Facts." Featuring Kellyanne Conway. Aired January 22, 2017, on NBC. Accessed January 4, 2023. URL.



5 January 5

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (goodreads)



6 January 6

My blog post https://www.akashmalik.net/blog/how-does-a-film-major-become-a-technical-instructor.



7 January 7

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10618513-january-7th-seven-clear-functions-of-the-mind-the-proper

”AI Video Editor” - Adobe Premiere Pro https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ai-video-editing.html



8 January 8

Tibken, Shara. "Steve Jobs Film Is a ‘Painting,’ Not a ‘Photograph,’ Moviemakers Say." CNET, October 3, 2015. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/steve-jobs-film-is-a-painting-not-a-photograph-moviemakers-say/.

Aristotle. Poetics. Translated by S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Accessed August 12, 2024. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html.



9 January 9

Wikipedia for “blackra1n”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackra1n

Porter, Jon and Vincent, James "The EU’s New Rule Will Force the iPhone to Use USB-C by 2024." The Verge, June 7, 2022. https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23156361/european-union-usb-c-wired-charging-iphone-lightning-ewaste.





10 January 10

Confino, Jo. "Has Technology Stopped Evolving and Destroyed the World in the Process?" The Guardian, June 23, 2015. https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/technology-stopped-evolution-destroying-world.

Roy, Soumik "Facebook: If Something Is Free, You Are the Product." TechHQ, April 9, 2018. https://techhq.com/2018/04/facebook-if-something-is-free-you-are-the-product/.

NBC News. "Air Quality Live Updates: Smoke from Canadian Wildfires Blankets U.S." NBC News, June 7, 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/air-quality-live-updates-rcna88298.

Cinelli, Matteo et al. "Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in New York City." The New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 27 (2020): 1-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7936330/.

NPR. "How 5 Tech Giants Have Become More Like Governments Than Companies." NPR, October 26, 2017. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/560136311/how-5-tech-giants-have-become-more-like-governments-than-companies.



11 January 11

a16z. 2018. “In Conversation: Netflix’ Ted Sarandos and Marc Andreessen.” YouTube. June 2, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy97TfvnMuo.



12 January 12

“7 Areas to Master for a Great Life | Tony Robbins.” 2024. Tonyrobbins.com. 2024. https://www.tonyrobbins.com/blog/tie-it-all-together.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/tr-web-v2/images/05/37/99dae93f-0d08-435d-9d08-5c7f1c2687f9/7040000537_d.jpg



13 January 13

John Carter From Mars. 2014. “Praying with /Nger.” YouTube. January 25, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOME2jZc98.


NBC News. 2023. “Special Edition with Andrew Ross Sorkin: AI and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.” YouTube. May 16, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cYwTEJBGk.

Ward, Caleb. 2014. “Curious Refuge.” Curious Refuge. 2014. https://curiousrefuge.com/about-caleb.

https://mpost.io/chatgpt-has-co-written-the-latest-episode-of-south-park/%23:~:text=The%2520most%2520recent%2520episode%2520of,fields%2520like%2520writing%2520and%2520entertainment.





14 January 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbet0m_dg8w

https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html#:~:text=Pavlov's%20Dog%20Experiment,-Pavlov%20(1902)%20started&text=Pavlov%20showed%20that%20dogs%20could,work%20between%201890%20and%201930.

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/can-old-dogs-learn-new-tricks#:~:text=You%20may%20have%20heard%20the,eager%20to%20grasp%20new%20experiences.



15 January 15

Bill Engvall. 2023. “Bill Engvall - Men Are Basic.” YouTube. March 22, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oooxJFkjI8.


Tannen, Deborah. 2013. “Deborah Tannen: Gender-Specific Language Rituals.” YouTube Video. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxnBZxsfoU.



16 January 16

17 January 17

‌Smithsonian Education. 2009. “In Praise of Satyajit Ray.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZUYLXM4D8.

“Per Scholas’ Bronx Campus Featured in the Bronx Times - per Scholas.” 2023. Per Scholas. March 24, 2023. https://perscholas.org/news/per-scholas-bronx-campus-featured-in-the-bronx-times/.

Conway, Sean, Paolo Giordano, Luca Guadagnino, Francesca Manieri, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, and Alice Braga. 2020. “We Are Who We Are.” IMDb. September 14, 2020. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848536/.


‌Welsh, Oli. 2023. “The Men Who Created Tetris Reflect on Their Bromance.” Polygon. March 31, 2023. https://www.polygon.com/23663656/tetris-creators-alexey-pajitnov-henk-rogers-history.



18 January 18

“How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn’t behavioral, what the hell is it?” — Charlie Munger (1924-2023) QuoteFancy 

Canelakes, Nicole. 2023. “The Stripper Index: An Unorthodox Recession Measurement.” The American Genius. December 12, 2023. https://theamericangenius.com/tech-news/the-stripper-index-recession/.

19 January 19

https://www.tiktok.com/@makethemovefinancial/video/7119868674046971179?_r=1&_t=8dLCkHEIIsU&social_sharing=v5



20 January 20

Drucker, Peter F. 1939. The End of Economic Man, by Peter F. Drucker.



21 January 21

‌Ovitz, Michael. 2018. Who Is Michael Ovitz? : A Memoir. New York, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, An Imprint Of Penguin Random House Llc.

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22 January 22

Iger, Robert. 2019. The Ride of a Lifetime : Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. New York: Random House.



23 January 23

“Mo Money Mo Problems.” 2021. Wikipedia. November 16, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Money_Mo_Problems.



24 January 24

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 



25 January 25

Maas, Jennifer. 2023. “TCM Twist: Spielberg, Scorsese and PTA to Help Curate, Charlie Tabesh.” Variety. Variety. June 28, 2023. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/tcm-spielberg-scorsese-paul-thomas-anderson-partnership-charlie-tabesh-1235656973/.


Gray, Tim. 2016. “Lew Wasserman: Still Remembered as Hollywood’s Ultimate Mover and Shaker.” Variety. March 22, 2016. https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/lew-wasserman-birthday-mover-shaker-1201721984/. ‌ ‌



26 January 26

https://theplayersnyc.org



27 January 27

28 January 28

-On the shortness of life by Seneca, translated by John W. Basore 

Ben Franklin “don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”



29 January 29

Wikipedia for Jeffrey Skilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Skilling



30 January 30

Wikipedia for William Wellman Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wellman_Jr.

Pandey, Geeta. 2023. “Abhimaan: A Bollywood Marital Drama That’s Relevant Even after 50 Years.” Bbc.com. BBC News. March 16, 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64813501.

Wikipedia for A Star is Born (1954) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Star_Is_Born_(1954_film)


Wikipedia for Abhimaan (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhimaan_(1973_film)

Wikipedia for A Star is Born (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Star_Is_Born_(2018_film)



31 January 31

Wikipedia for Poor Charlie's Almanack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Charlie's_Almanack






FEBRUARY

32 February 1

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/23/cacti-and-false-bananas-scientists-sketch-out-menus-of-the-future.html

https://www.kew.org/about-us/press-media/future-foods



33 February 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wddy-kcZ90



34 February 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Berne



35 February 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgWdjvRgouk





37 February 6

video of Mark Granovetter discussing "weak ties."



38 February 7

the Harvard Business Review YouTube



39 February 8

“Work is what horses die of.”  – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (GoodReads)  



40 February 9

episode 406 of the Tim Ferriss Show



41 February 10

Your iPhone has 20 million times more power than Apollo 11.

The Players club, founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth



43 February 12

Miracle of Rome” Sofia Polgar



44 February 13

Dashavatara



45 February 14

Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water, former nightclub promoter

Mercy Ships



46 February 15

 “To the man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” ― Abraham Maslow 

YouTube video on Charlie Munger



47 February 16

The Players NYC





51 February 20

Ted Cruz article







53 February 22

Jason Kilar blog about Hulu company name





57 February 26

In 2005, Duke University experiment with Apple and IBM logos



58 February 27



60 February 29

Hypable interview with Brian Selznick







MARCH





62 March 2

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching



63 March 3

Katia Moskvitch writes for BBC

Esquire magazine “Newest Tailoring Idea for Men.”



64 March 4

Mar 4 2023 Princeton-UPenn basketball game (ESPN)

Chevalier Wikipedia

The Magic Flute BBC show



65 March 5

Josh Schrei article

Mātariśvan







67 March 7

Smiles 1964 short film

King of the Underdogs (2017)



68 March 8

Martin Scorsese The New York Times

James Gunn on Instagram

Alex Abad-Santos for Vox





69 March 9

My older brother was on Wheel of Fortune. He won a trip to Egypt



70 March 10

Michael Riedel

71 March 11

Erika Lee





77 March 17

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.” Albert Einstein, Goodreads 





78 March 18



79 March 19

Spike Lee Vanity Fair (YouTube)

Spike Lee on GQ

After Hours (1985)



80 March 20

episode 1309 of The Joe Rogan Experience



81 March 21



82 March 22

Princeton University



83 March 23

“There are no small roles, only small actors.”  Konstantin Stanislavski 



84 March 24

85 March 25

86 March 26

87 March 27

88 March 28

James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist of CompTIA



89 March 29

“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” Farrah Gray 

 Box-Six’s Fusion



90 March 30



91 March 31

Roger Ebert’s review of The Rainmaker (1997)























APRIL



92 April 1

Brent Lang’s Variety article on Beau is Afraid.

TheWrap reported the movie lost $35 million





95 April 4

History of Memento Mori,” Ryan Holiday



97 April 6

The Social Network (2010)



98 April 7

New York MagazineThe Information Broker"

DealBook



99 April 8

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.”
—Cyril Connolly (
GoodReads)



101 April 10

Ted Talk How to get Richie Rich quickly, Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai



103 April 12

Kevin A. Mayer quote, co-founder and co-CEO of Candle Media, former CEO of TikTok, former head of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International.

EnJanae' Taylor LSU Reveille

YouTube is now over 10% of all connected TV viewing in the US, Nielsen.



104 April 13

2007 Public Service Announcement

New York Times article dated April 13 2007



107 April 16

Masters of Scale podcast, Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi post on LinkedIn



108 April 17

website that sells standing desks



109 April 18

“Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself – not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” — Peter F. Drucker


110 April 19

strange bedfellows” Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 2 Season 2



111 April 20

Scorsese 5 DVD collection





113 April 22

Jeff Bezos speech at Blue Origin



115 April 24

Ryan Holiday Time Travel blog





118 April 27

Howard Schultz on the podcast Masters of Scale



119 April 28

Ryan Holiday Daily Stoic



120 April 29

Hugo free on iTunes 2013

Scorsese visual literacy

Triumph of the Will Wikipedia



121 April 30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Krawcheck



MAY



122 May 1

2017, the McDonald’s app Money Monopoly campaign

Robinhood discontinued animated confetti



123 May 2

CompTIA's Tech Job Report March 2023

AWS re/Start

Nintendo Switch Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection



124 May 3

"Yeh Hai Geeta Ka Gyan” from 1975 film Sanyasi



125 May 4

2-pizza team AWS insights

Ronald Coase, The Nature of the Firm



126 May 5

Lloyd from Entourage

Tanuj Chopra

Gina Reyes



128 May 7

2014 Showrunner roundtable Hollywood Reporter



129 May 8

The Truman Library

Truman earned a reputation for independence and fighting corruption



130 May 9

The Brothers Emanuel, The New York Times 

Dr. Emanuel, The Atlantic

gerontocracy

national median age of thirty-nine.





131 May 10

Franklin Leonard, The Black List,

Leonard on Masters of Scale

Slumdog Millionaire



132 May 11

“When I was young and rich, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36, all I think about is money.”  - Wallace Shawn, My Dinner With Andre (1981) 



133 May 12

Patchen Barss, author of The Erotic Engine (patchenbarss.com

The Atlantic article

Terry Crews and Billie Eilish admitted to struggling with porn addiction



134 May 13

March 10, 2017, Netflix tweeted “Love is sharing a password.” After about five years, Netflix cracked down on sharing passwords. 

May 2024, Netflix signed three-year deal for NFL Christmas games

Harvard Business Review



138 May 17

Movie Ghajini from 2008



139 May 18

Clio awards speech Jerry Seinfeld





141 May 20

Brian Selznick, Hugo



142 May 21

Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra (The Verge)

Tony Vinciquerra CNBC

May 2023 Vinciquerra



144 May 23

Bob Iger postponed his retirement four times and basically set his successor, Bob Chapek, up to fail.   

The Financial Times even put out a short film saying there were conspiracy theories Iger purposely set up Chapek to fail





146 May 25

Tim Wise on YouTube



147 May 26

NationSquid YouTube video



148 May 27

May 27, 2020, AT&T launched HBO Max

WarnerMedia didn’t get HBO Max on Roku until December 2020

Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter

149 May 28

“No one ever gets “talker’s block.” Why then, is writer’s block endemic?“ ― Seth Godin blog 



150 May 29

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra to TNT Sports May 29, 2023

Roosevelt Birthplace Museum

152 May 31

Jason Kilar TED Talk

Ken Auletta interviews on CSPAN and the Gary V podcast. 



JUNE



154 June 2

My former student Adonis Goris featured in the Wall Street Journal



155 June 3

Jack Valenti guest column for Variety

Barry Avrich documentary The Last Mogul



157 June 5

Comedian Josh Johnson



162 June 10

Wikipedia Ānvīkṣikī



165 June 13

Wikipedia page for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre



167 June 15

The Verge on The College Board - HEIC fiasco



168 June 16

ShootingReels timeline of how Facebook has changed over years



169 June 17

Tony Robbins website



172 June 20

Amazon page for author Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai



173 June 21

Hasan Minhaj We're Doing Elections Wrong



174 June 22

Apple livestream of WWDC 20



175 June 23

Chris Nodder four levels of persuasion



177 June 25

Michael Jackson’s This is It

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)



178 June 26

Walt Disney’s Donald in Mathmagic Land



179 June 27

Steven Soderbergh’s advice to filmmakers on LA Times



180 June 28

antoleska.net



JULY



184 July 2

“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death.  ― Caitlin Doughty 

185 July 3

"There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why.” ― Unknown 

Isaac Asimov



189 July 7

American Film magazine



190 July 8

My favorite quote from Tom Sawyer is this

Evil By Design by Chris Nodder



191 July 9

“Get a Mac” 2006-2009 (Wikipedia

Envy Chris Nodder



195 July 13

CNBC’s David Faber and Disney CEO Bob Iger in Sun Valley

0.000015 percent of a She-Hulk episode's $25 million budget went in residual to the writer Cody Ziglar

full transcript of Fran Drescher’s speech to AMPTP during labor strike



196 July 14

story of Oscar Grant’s killing



197 July 15

‘Bonnie and Clyde.’ (LA Times)





199 July 17

John Lewis passes away at age 80

Dawn Porter documentary Good Trouble, interview with CNN



200 July 18

Netflix shipped its last DVD



201 July 19

sonder” definition in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows



209 July 27

July 27, 2010, President Obama visits Tastee Sub Shop



210 July 28

Apple “Crazy Ones” commercial with Steve Jobs’ voice





213 July 31

Amazon leadership principles, Jeff Bezos



AUGUST

214 August 1

“Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.”  - David Deida 

Urban Dictionary shit test

2005 movie Hitch scene



215 August 2

"The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.”  - Eckhart Tolle 





216 August 3

Masters of Scale Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

the wiki system



217 August 4

Charles Proteus Steinmetz 17 minute documentary



221 August 8

Facebook’s breakout meme “lms”



222 August 9

Ted Hope Substack



228 August 15

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Call of Duty: Black Ops

TheWrap Creed 3

Raging Bull

Saiyan armor Killmonger in Black Panther



229 August 16

A jury found Samsung guilty of infringing Apple’s design in 2012

Major League Baseball right fielder Willie Keeler



230 August 17

“First with the most” Nathan Bedford Forrest



231 August 18

Willie Keeler, Baseball Hall of Fame 

Apple II appeared on the market in June 1977

232 August 19

William Cohen example of niche



234 August 21

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” –  Chanakya 



235 August 22

Christopher “Chris” Voss  

Nicholas Taleb’s book The Black Swan





237 August 24

Andy Jassy and Reed Hastings at AWS re:Invent



239 August 26

I made a prosperous voyage,” Zeno later joked, “when I suffered shipwreck.” 



240 August 27

“Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.” –  Peter Thiel 



241 August 28

“It’s 8:00 in the evening, you’re next to your TV–which remote control do you pick up: PlayStation remote? TV remote? Or do you turn Netflix on?” –  Reed Hastings 



242 August 29

In youth we learn; in age we understand.” –  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 



243 August 30

Chanakya in Daily Life



244 August 31

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ―Socrates 





SEPTEMBER



245 September 1

FBI file on Steve Jobs released, Wired



246 September 2

Business Insider shared the schedules of Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg



249 September 5

Made In America 2023 canceled, CBS

Lizzo August 2023 allegations (Vox)



250 September 6

Hays Code



253 September 9

Masters of Scale, Rent the Runway’s Jenn Hyman







262 September 18

The Red Shoes Wikipedia

Netflix realized ads earn them $8.50 more per user



264 September 20

Quinn Shephard, Blame

Neal Bennett, Rutgers

NoFilmSchool





266 September 22

“It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.” –  Epictetus 





270 September 26

Everybody in Hollywood is standing in a field full of haystacks, trying to find a bunch of needles. They don’t know which needle they’re going to use when they find them, but they have to start with a needle. We invented a metal detector.” –  Franklin Leonard, The Black List 







274 September 30

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (GoodReads)

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, a CAA package (image



OCTOBER



276 October 2

Nathuram Vinayak Godse



277 October 3

Bhagat Singh Thind

"Hindus Too Brunette To Vote Here" (1923)

Indiaspora

Mary Emmons,

Bengali Harlem

1956 election of Dalip Singh Saund





278 October 4

Bloomberg interview with Brian Chesky





280 October 6

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”  ― Marshall McLuhan 



282 October 8

"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.”  - Greta Thunberg  



283 October 9

“Film is a disease," Frank Capra said. "When it infects your bloodstream... when it takes over as the number-one hormone, it plays Iago to your psyche. The antidote to film is more film.” – Martin Scorsese quote 





287 October 13

“The ankh symbol—sometimes referred to as the key of life or the key of the Nile—is representative of eternal life in Ancient Egypt. Created by Africans long ago, the ankh is said to be the first--or original—cross.” –National Park Service  

Monster Reborn Yu-Gi-Oh





289 October 15

Tour guides Randa Abdel Wahab, and Adam (@adamzetours Instagram)



290 October 16

“There are a thousand Evelyns out there who are being terribly underpaid and all of them can destroy every secret we have in Hollywood.” –  Craig Mazin, Scriptnotes episode 422 

2021 #PayUpHollywood Survey



293 October 19

And since strong habit leads, and we are accustomed to employ desire and aversion only to things which are not within the power of our will, we ought to oppose to this habit a contrary habit, and where there is great slipperiness in the appearances, there to oppose the habit of exercise. (Book 3 Chapter 12) –  Epictetus’ Discourses



294 October 20

Apple flexing so hard about how they gave back ports that they took away is just poetry.” –  Marques Brownlee Tweet Oct 18, 2021 

Apple Support Tech Specs  ― MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) 

Apple unveils MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max ― January 17, 2023

October 18, 2021 Apple event



295 October 21

Director’s Roundtable The Hollywood Reporter



296 October 22

YouTube, Eckhart Tolle



301 October 27

Ken Auletta talks to GaryVee



302 October 28

As Howard Moskowitz loves to say, ‘The mind knows not what the tongue wants’” –  Malcolm Gladwell 



303 October 29

Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.  - Peter Drucker  







NOVEMBER



306 November 1

“It’s much easier to sell the Brooklyn Bridge than to give it away.” –  George C. Parker 



307 November 2

C-SPAN Brian Lamb interviews Ken Auletta

20% Rule CNBC





311 November 6

James Cameron on Charlie Rose in 1997





313 November 8

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you act it naturally. For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another’s. - The Internet Classics Archive





320 November 15

Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988)



321 November 16

Clockers (1995) 

The Color of Money (1986)

Casino (1995)

Mark T. Conrad The Philosophy of Spike Lee

Flash game “Beat Me Up



322 November 17

“There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. ― Martin Scorsese 





324 November 19

“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”   Plato  



325 November 20

Netflix realizes ad tier users make $8.50 more a month



326 November 21

Circle of competence BusinessInsider



327 November 22

Anatomy of a Scene, Todd Phillips



328 November 23

Aesop’s fable



331 November 26

Nancy Lee, PhD, wrote a paper entitled  "Let's Hug It Out, Bitch!" The Negotiation Of Hegemony And Homosociality Through Speech in HBO's Entourage 



332 November 27

Sarah Silverman and other big name authors suing OpenAI



333 November 28

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work” ― Gustave Flaubert 



334 November 29

American black bear

Tony Soprano house



DECEMBER



336 December 1

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.  - Lord Kelvin  





338 December 3

I understand there’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.” –  Anthony Bourdain 





340 December 5

Stage Coach (1939)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

The Searchers (1956)

DW Griffith

Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

Raoul Walsh



341 December 6

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover



342 December 7

Masters of Scale Angela Ahrendts

Today at Apple



343 December 8

1939 Walter Mitty

Ben Stiller Mitty movie 2013

movie clip



346 December 11

ScriptNotes podcast “How Movie Money Works.”



348 December 13

short film, Our Nightly Fling



350 December 15

the OSI model



351 December 16

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”   Jodi Picoult 



352 December 17

TED Talk How to Build the Future in Four Steps, Jason Kilar

Om Malik





354 December 19

DuPont Delaware Online

July 2023 article, The Rothschild Family



355 December 20

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine

Corzine fights to keep New Jersey Nets in NJ article



356 December 21

Mad Men’s Marie Calvet, "Not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world cannot support that many ballerinas.”



357 December 22

Spike Lee’s Bamboozled

The Problem With Apu.

Hank Azaria



358 December 23

Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen



359 December 24

quote from Amistad movie, 1997



360 December 25

The Huffington Post “The Doorway Shot”

Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad finale inspired by The Searchers



362 December 27

James Clear, How To Start New Habits





364 December 29

Clayton Christensen jobs-to-be-done

how God does not employ accountants.  

WSJ, Clayton Christensen “turned his life into a case study.” 



365 December 30

Oppenheimer and Barbie





























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