“We wanted to tell a story with this medium and see how far we can push it, see what barriers we can break, how much we can make you feel that you’re actually on this submarine,” Berger said. “And I wanted to experience that, I wanted to take myself on the submarine.”
Being able to place himself and his audience inside the story also forced Berger to be hyper-specific about details around the experience, as well action that would facilitate plotting.
It’s the quality of writing. It doesn’t matter what the genre is. It doesn’t matter whether it’s on television or in movies. It’s the writing, it’s the story, it’s the character, it’s the emotional experience for an audience or for myself. It’s people that I have some feeling that I want to work with, or it’s a quality opportunity.
You might think that so insistently reminding fans of their team’s “Win Probability” would be against ESPN’s interests. If your team is down by several runs in the eighth inning, your hopes will already be fading. But to see that sinking feeling represented on the screen, in a crisp and precise-sounding 4 percent, could make an early bedtime more enticing. The producers of reality shows such as The Amazing Race know this, which is why they use quick cuts and split screens to deceive fans into thinking that teams are closer than they really are, and that the outcome is less certain than it really is. But ESPN has a more evolved consumer in mind. We got a clue as to who this person might be in March, when Phil Orlins, a vice president of production at the company, previewed the graphic. Orlins said that Win Probability would speak “to the way people think about sports right now,” especially people “who have a wager on the game.”
Technology makes travel easier by allowing us to research and map out our travel plans. But for the disability community, technology can be the most valuable travel companion. The following apps and sites help people with disabilities make smart and safe choices so they can get out in the world and explore more than ever.
Having researched the sources of work-related unhappiness, and studied thousands of people at various places along the spectrum of fulfilment, I worry that this narrative – that loving your job is a necessary condition for both happiness and efficacy – is not only problematic, it’s dangerous for our mental health.
I hate it when I remove my AirPods Pro from my ears, put them back in the case for charging so that I can continue to listen to my music later, and discover quite a while later that one of the AirPods failed to charge, and I have to wait longer.
Dear Apple: how about putting in one more sensor in the AirPods case so as to be able to notify me on my iPhone that the AirPods in the case is not charging?
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