Nate DiMeo
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When I think about trying to write the best memory palace story or trying to figure out like what's the mode that I want to be in, it really comes back into what are my favorite ways to have heard a story. And it is some version of like your best friend at the bar where they have just read some incredible book or they have come back from a trip to Venice.
When I think about trying to write the best memory palace story or trying to figure out like what's the mode that I want to be in, it really comes back into what are my favorite ways to have heard a story. And it is some version of like your best friend at the bar where they have just read some incredible book or they have come back from a trip to Venice.
When I think about trying to write the best memory palace story or trying to figure out like what's the mode that I want to be in, it really comes back into what are my favorite ways to have heard a story. And it is some version of like your best friend at the bar where they have just read some incredible book or they have come back from a trip to Venice.
Something has just happened to them and they have come to you and they have thought about what you, Pablo, you, Nate, kind of need to, what's really going to get you going. And they have like blown your mind.
Something has just happened to them and they have come to you and they have thought about what you, Pablo, you, Nate, kind of need to, what's really going to get you going. And they have like blown your mind.
Something has just happened to them and they have come to you and they have thought about what you, Pablo, you, Nate, kind of need to, what's really going to get you going. And they have like blown your mind.
It's this kind of like intimate thing where someone has thought it all through and they have a sense where like, well, if I tell you this first, you're going to be thinking this and then I'm going to flip it over. And so there's craft stuff. But ultimately what underlines that and underlies it is meaning. That the past is just like the present. It is just as complicated.
It's this kind of like intimate thing where someone has thought it all through and they have a sense where like, well, if I tell you this first, you're going to be thinking this and then I'm going to flip it over. And so there's craft stuff. But ultimately what underlines that and underlies it is meaning. That the past is just like the present. It is just as complicated.
It's this kind of like intimate thing where someone has thought it all through and they have a sense where like, well, if I tell you this first, you're going to be thinking this and then I'm going to flip it over. And so there's craft stuff. But ultimately what underlines that and underlies it is meaning. That the past is just like the present. It is just as complicated.
The big picture understanding is that it is everything all at once, that it is as complicated as today feels, that the people in the past are just as human as we are. And it's surprising how hard that idea is, you know, for even me to hold who thinks about that all the time. I am not an expert in history, but I think about how we live in time all the time.
The big picture understanding is that it is everything all at once, that it is as complicated as today feels, that the people in the past are just as human as we are. And it's surprising how hard that idea is, you know, for even me to hold who thinks about that all the time. I am not an expert in history, but I think about how we live in time all the time.
The big picture understanding is that it is everything all at once, that it is as complicated as today feels, that the people in the past are just as human as we are. And it's surprising how hard that idea is, you know, for even me to hold who thinks about that all the time. I am not an expert in history, but I think about how we live in time all the time.
It's very convincing. And thinking about the present as this like historically constructed thing in the way, you know, it's hard to just like hang out in the Walgreens and hear a song on the radio and not think to yourself, boy, in 1997, they were really thinking, like the ways that they were sanding off the rough edges of grunge in this one, you know, or whatever. It's like, it's constant.
It's very convincing. And thinking about the present as this like historically constructed thing in the way, you know, it's hard to just like hang out in the Walgreens and hear a song on the radio and not think to yourself, boy, in 1997, they were really thinking, like the ways that they were sanding off the rough edges of grunge in this one, you know, or whatever. It's like, it's constant.
It's very convincing. And thinking about the present as this like historically constructed thing in the way, you know, it's hard to just like hang out in the Walgreens and hear a song on the radio and not think to yourself, boy, in 1997, they were really thinking, like the ways that they were sanding off the rough edges of grunge in this one, you know, or whatever. It's like, it's constant.
It's a constant presence.
It's a constant presence.
It's a constant presence.
That's right.
That's right.