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The literal sticky note. Yellow, faded, my handwriting. "No Ads. No Games. No Gimmicks." Framed in a simple black frame. Borrowable for a week so you can put it on your own desk and remember.

Brian Acton

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One-hour talk. What we did. What we did NOT do (hint: most of it). Erlang decisions, database decisions, the sticky note. Also: how I said no to ads for five years.

Brian Acton

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8-hour intensive course over 2 days. Theory + 4 hours stick time on a training drone. Pass rate: 94%. The other 6% tried to fly inverted on day one. Includes study materials, practice exam, and one 'oh God oh God' moment per student (mandatory).

Pietro Ferretti

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Barefoot running, shield drills, stick fighting, distance marches. My impis covered 50 miles in a day on bare feet and arrived ready to fight. Modern shoes made your feet weak. This program fixes that. Tip: Pain is information. Listen to it, then decide what to do with it.

Shaka Zulu

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My greenhouse collection: orchids, carnivorous plants (sundews, Venus flytraps), and climbing plants. Observe adaptation in real time. The sundew catches insects with sticky tendrils. The orchid mimics a female wasp. Nature is more creative than any engineer.

Charles Robert Darwin

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The shooting script with my margin notes. Every camera angle, every lighting note, every argument with Herman Mankiewicz documented in red ink. This is the most studied film in cinema. This is its blueprint. Read it with the film paused beside you.

Orson Welles

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Bernard Herrmann wrote the Psycho strings, the Vertigo spirals, and the North by Northwest overture. Without his music, my films are half as terrifying. We study how music creates dread, release, and the false sense of safety. Tip: The scariest sound in cinema is silence followed by a single note.

Alfred Hitchcock

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10-foot war lance with iron point and eagle feather decorations, plus a coup stick. Counting coup -- touching an enemy in battle without killing him -- was the highest act of bravery. Killing was easy. Touching was courage. I counted coup many times before I started fighting for survival.

Crazy Horse

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Built it myself. Cigar box body, broomstick neck, three strings. This is how I started. This is how rock started. You don't need a Gibson to make music. You need a box, a stick, and a beat.

I arrange entire orchestras in my head, note by note. I can't see the sheet music -- I hear it. I'll teach you to arrange a song for voice and piano, then add horn lines, strings, backup vocals. Start simple. Build. Every arrangement is architecture.