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Jacob Collier / F-150

If only I could purposely manifest you forwarding this email to someone.
Jacob Collier Eats His Last Meal

Two weeks ago, this newsletter was about three recent unexpected (but very welcome) interviews. If you missed it, you can read it here: Cross Universe Interviews.
Simon Sinek interviewed Jacob Collier.
Tim Ferriss interviewed Brandon Sanderson.
Josh Scherer interviewed Simone Giertz.
Yesterday, I popped open YouTube to find that the latest guest on Josh Scherer’s Last Meals was… Jacob Collier.

Jacob may have been mentioned here more than anyone else, but he continues to rise to the surface as one of the most important creative minds of our generation. Give the interview a watch if you have a few minutes. Otherwise, just read his ‘last words’. I think it is a message we all could hear more often.
Josh: If you want to look in that camera right there and deliver your last words.
Jacob: Oh, I'd have to sit down and think about this for longer than a distracted hour. But I think what I'd maybe say is, to anybody who wants to change the world, it might feel like the world that's most worth changing is the world outside of you. It may also feel like the way to change the world is to stand against people or stand against things and hold up a flag and say, I'm not this and I'm not that. But I would say that the only world you can ever change is your own world. And the only world you can ever build is your own world. And your world is worth building. And your imagination is worth taking seriously. So please do that for the sake of everybody. Everybody needs you to speak from that place and articulate that for us. Because that's why you're here.
And to the second point I made, I think that sometimes the most brave, irreverent, courageous, counter culture, world changing thing you can actually do is be kind. And be gentle. Because I think that in a world where standing against things is such the way that people identify. Standing for yourself and being kind to people and being willing to be wrong and to change shape and change your mind. But just knowing that you are enough, you have enough of what you need always to do the next piece of learning that you need to do. As the great Kae Tempest once said, “Nothing I've learned could prepare me for everything else that needs learning.” If you show up and be kind, and know yourself, then you've done a hundred percent of your job and your duty as a human, so maybe, maybe there's something in, in that.
Josh: I would say. Jacob, I think that's it. I think you did it. Imagine if we gave you time to prepare, my God.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Sorry Ford

I feel like I owe an apology to Ford, the F-150, and my home state of Michigan.
Three weeks ago, I made a case for why, with the right framing, the stupid Cybertruck might actually be a good strategy. You can read it here: In Defense of the Cybertruck. The point was that the Cybertruck works because it feels nothing like the incumbent and long-time best-selling vehicle in America, the Ford F-150.
Well, after more than 40 years, the Toyota RAV4 just dethroned the F150.
I can’t help but feel partially responsible.
We’ll see if I can accidentally manifest a CyberSUV to dethrone the RAV4.

be good
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