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Charlie Becker
@charliedbecker #617512
Dad, Writer, Bookseller, Professor
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Cross-casting this from writing. This is an essay I wrote about the eye-opening and mind-expanding journey I had learning about Russian Cosmism, the philosophy which contended that we should colonize space and make everyone immortal.
https://warpcast.com/charliedbecker/0x6595f34c
https://warpcast.com/charliedbecker/0x6595f34c
After a MERE six months of drafting and editing, here is an essay which I still don’t think if quite finished but in which I distill an enormous number of important ideas I’ve been converging on.
LINK: https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/courage-and-moonshots
LINK: https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/courage-and-moonshots
I'm doing a short "season" of a podcast/show with 10-12 episodes in early 2025.
Episodes will be mix of solo and interviews in video and audio on multiple platforms then chopped up as short-form clips to market it.
What's the best lean stack to do this as a one-man operation?
Episodes will be mix of solo and interviews in video and audio on multiple platforms then chopped up as short-form clips to market it.
What's the best lean stack to do this as a one-man operation?
It took me a while to get back into it, but I did.
- Left is a 5K in March '23 at a PAINFUL 13:40/mile.
- Right is a 10K in October '24 at a breezy 11:38/mile.
I'm not setting records, but I just started training this August after recovering from major surgery. Excited for where this goes.
- Left is a 5K in March '23 at a PAINFUL 13:40/mile.
- Right is a 10K in October '24 at a breezy 11:38/mile.
I'm not setting records, but I just started training this August after recovering from major surgery. Excited for where this goes.
I don't have Temu, but Temu was emailing me saying it was delivering my order to a city I don't live in. I did "forgot my password" and took back the account. But then I googled my name + delivery city and I think a senior with my name mistyped his email, and I am the hacker now?
Oh my God it just got so much more personal and specifically about ME
Sometimes I read something that I really need to read in that moment and it feels good but also hurts a little bit and so I inadvertently make the American Psycho/sigma male “ooh” face. This most recent face is brought to you by The Courage to Be Disliked.
The coolest thing about growing up in a secondhand bookstore is your chances are higher than anybody else’s for running across ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE books you’ve never heard of before.
“Jack of all trades? Actually I prefer the term polymid.”
There should be a word with a positive connotation for when you’re better than 99% of the population at something but among people who actually do it you’re mid, like being a man who can bench 225 or run a 7 minute mile at 40.
Who has the best "start a podcast" guide? I am going to do a pilot run of 10-12 episodes of a podcast and need to know what software etc., where to upload stuff. I'm looking for efficiency and just enough that I won't be like, "wow I screwed this up" in a year or two.
I’m writing a book based on a viral-ish essay I wrote called “Do the weirdest thing that feels right.”
Here’s some brief notes with boldest section headings. I’d love to know if anything pique your interest—see next cast too.
Here’s some brief notes with boldest section headings. I’d love to know if anything pique your interest—see next cast too.
This is the comment I’ve been waiting on since I started writing on Substack.
There’s something so intimate and meaningful about a birthday cake being blown out with just a few other people around.
It’s got all the good shit wrapped up at once: the shared love between people (the cake itself), the inexorable passage of time (birthday candles), our own little expression of individuality within the broader culture we live in (the whole ritual), alienation and loneliness (at the small group) . . .
I’ve got a story rolling around in my head about this. Length? Angle? I don’t know. But there’s something there.
It’s got all the good shit wrapped up at once: the shared love between people (the cake itself), the inexorable passage of time (birthday candles), our own little expression of individuality within the broader culture we live in (the whole ritual), alienation and loneliness (at the small group) . . .
I’ve got a story rolling around in my head about this. Length? Angle? I don’t know. But there’s something there.
Who are people who have built big followings by saying, “I have aspirations to transform myself and the world, and I don’t know how it is going to happen, but I’m going to start taking some big swings and bringing you along that journey with me?”
This is why I picked the name “Castles in the Sky” for my blog. I know it has a connotation of nonsense or silliness but I picked it because a castle is an impregnable fortress, steady and inspirational. And to see one floating in the sky would be an absurd and arresting experience, but it would change you for sure.
And that kind of aspirational, upward journey is something I’m looking for. Like indiehacking but not just for building tech products, but rather transcendent transformation?
(Also check out my new profile picture.)
This is why I picked the name “Castles in the Sky” for my blog. I know it has a connotation of nonsense or silliness but I picked it because a castle is an impregnable fortress, steady and inspirational. And to see one floating in the sky would be an absurd and arresting experience, but it would change you for sure.
And that kind of aspirational, upward journey is something I’m looking for. Like indiehacking but not just for building tech products, but rather transcendent transformation?
(Also check out my new profile picture.)
I tried to eschew my human touch so that I could make more money but as it turns out I have to be authentic because I suck at everything else.
SKILL ISSUE
original poem by me, Charlie Becker
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He closed the book then sighed aloud and said:
“I don’t know how to write iambic verse.
Someday I’ll find my art but not today.”
original poem by me, Charlie Becker
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He closed the book then sighed aloud and said:
“I don’t know how to write iambic verse.
Someday I’ll find my art but not today.”
500 Followers! Ask me anything!
Or alternatively, give me an answer and I’ll give the question.
Or alternatively, give me an answer and I’ll give the question.
Twice today I read something someone wrote on social media and then bristled with righteous indignation at their audacity. But he funny coincidence is both times I clicked through the doubleplusungood comment to nonperson’s profile because I really needed my two minutes hate, only to discover I’d met this person. And both times I had decided immediately they were something of a dunce, whose main saving grace was that they had been something of an ingenue, someone who was so obviously out of their depth it was kind of charming even. And I felt like such an idiot both times, both for letting these comments burn me up like that but also for not showing a little grace for people—even if only in this little private dialogue they don’t know we’re having.
Imagine with me, if you will, that I have haters. And these haters don’t want me to succeed. But on Monday, my surgeon will say, “you’ve done great, you can do any exercise you want,” and I will doggedly scrape motivation from the miasma of the last few years to become a long-distance running, heavy weight lifting, short-form video producing, engaging essay writing ubermensch. And then, for these haters, it is over.
I have a new face and a new essay out. You may have seen my pfp and not known I was undergoing a METAMORPHOSIS. Read the essay for a story about a crazy surgery and the best articulation I have so far of what I'm doing on the internet. See next comment for that distillation if you don't feel like clicking out.
https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/i-have-a-new-face
https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/i-have-a-new-face
I’ve been getting a lot of tips lately which is super cool. But it also begs the question, “what are tips?” Also, how do I use them?
Please succeed Farcaster. Substack Notes is great but it’s just teeter tottering on the edge of being LinkedIn with an MFA. You’re our last hope.
I wrote something DIFFERENT and NEW and WEIRD and NOT THE SAME THING YOU SEE REHASHED ON EVERY PLATFORM.
Please REWARD my BRAVERY and ORIGINALITY with LIKES and COMMENTS and SUBSCRIBES.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charliebecker/p/living-the-questions-reading-the
Please REWARD my BRAVERY and ORIGINALITY with LIKES and COMMENTS and SUBSCRIBES.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charliebecker/p/living-the-questions-reading-the
Have you seen the movie Synecdoche, New York?
I’ve yet to meet someone who had seen it before I recommended it so I always assumed it was super obscure. But I just found out Roger Ebert called it the best movie of the decade from 2000-2010?!
I’ve yet to meet someone who had seen it before I recommended it so I always assumed it was super obscure. But I just found out Roger Ebert called it the best movie of the decade from 2000-2010?!