Mar 26Member-onlyA Wave of ‘Revenge Travel’ Continues into 2023… and What To Do About It (If Anything)A Light-Hearted Yet Practical Take On The Post-Covid Travel Boom Plus Some Essential Travel Tips It’s difficult to characterize our current moment as being post-Covid, however for the sake of those who have sheltered in place to the nth degree, it appears that 2023 is the year — finally — when some of us are able to hop on long-haul flights and spill into the…Travel3 min readTravel3 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Jan 16Member-onlyHow to Stop Using Your Brain And Love the Atomic Bomb of AITripping Up Our Robot Overlords with A Satirical Challenge In the following article, I ask ChatGPT a serious question about satire and AI. Will our machine learn to laugh a little? Time will tell. In Stanley Kubrick’s classic film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we are introduced to the tantalizing dangers…Artificial Intelligence2 min readArtificial Intelligence2 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Nov 2, 2022Member-onlyWhy You Should Not Write That NovelA Writer’s Manifesto On Not Trying, Hardly At All A first draft is a messy affair. It holds all the promise, yet none of the sweat equity to rally through to a celebratory closing paragraph. Leaving it in limbo, then, is the appropriate avenue. …Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Jan 24, 2021Member-only“My Psychedelic Love Story” by Errol Morris: Documentary ReviewA Kaleidoscopic Deep-dive into Psychedelic History by Award-Winning Doc Maker When Timothy Leary’s former lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith sought the ear of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, he found himself unable to shake the enrapturing subject of psychedelics for a second time. …Film5 min readFilm5 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Updated Feb 16, 2022Member-onlyReading George Orwell’s Short Essay Will Make You A Better WriterSix rules from the legendary author applied to the craft of screenwriting — George Orwell, journalist, and author of the iconic books Animal Farm, 1984, and Down and Out In Paris and London laid out the foundations of his beliefs on the craft of writing, described in the published essay “Politics and the English Language”. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Updated Jun 23, 2022Member-onlyHow Mythic Structure’s Revamp Can Improve Your StorytellingNew Twist on Screenwriting Methodology The Hero’s Journey Ever since Christopher Vogler’s precursor to “The Writer’s Journey” was passed around in memo form in the 1990s, it appeared to cause a seismic shift in the filmmaking business. It later rippled out widely, touching a large swath of creative endeavors where…Writing7 min readWriting7 min read
Published inCurator Of Dreams·Sep 25, 2020Member-onlyA Quote That Is the Tip of the Iceberg of This Current MomentAnd Why It Matters When you hear something that resonates, it almost feels as if the sentiment is both excruciatingly timely and timeless. Society has faced challenges of leadership countless times before. However, the moment we are in now is weighty and potent. The feeling of things being wrong on…Leadership2 min readLeadership2 min read
