Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend.

Why 'The Mandalorian' Uses Virtual Sets Over Green Screen | Movies Insider

The future is now. For Disney’s The Mandalorian, showrunner Jon Favreau pioneered this new method of using LED wall technology to have real-time virtual worlds displayed with the actors as they were shooting versus using a green screen and adding it in post-production.

This is mind-blowing stuff and another example of how the Unreal Engine can be used outside of gaming.

From the description:

For decades, film and TV productions have used green and blue screens to place actors into new environments. Now, LED walls are revolutionizing this process by projecting 3D environments in real-time behind actors to provide the illusion of being in a physical location. These methods were put to the test on Disney’s "The Mandalorian," of which over half was filmed indoors on a virtual set. This process of combining traditional cinematography techniques with advanced world-building technology effectively eliminates the need for a green screen.

The Navalmanack is Out Now! (And It’s Free!!)

If you’ve been a diligent reader of this newsletter, you know how highly I think of Naval Ravikant.

He’s the co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of AngelList, a platform that allows you to find thousands of startup jobs near you, invest in the latest startups, and discover new products that are just about to launch.

He’s also a modern-day philosopher. His most thought-provoking ideas are captured in a new book called The Navalmanck (an ode to Benjamin Franklin’s and Charlie Munger’s previous works).

What is great about this book is that it is completely free! Just go to Navalmanack.com to read it or purchase if you’d like.

My favorite section is on “How to Get Lucky.”

The first kind of luck is blind luck where one just gets lucky because something completely out of their control happened. This includes fortune, fate, etc.

Then, there’s luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion. This is when you’re running around creating opportunities. You’re generating a lot of energy, you’re doing a lot to stir things up. It’s almost like mixing a petri dish or mixing a bunch of reagents and seeing what combines. You’re just generating enough force, hustle, and energy for luck to find you.

A third way is you become very good at spotting luck. If you are very skilled in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in your field, and other people who aren’t attuned to it won’t notice. So, you become sensitive to luck.

The last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind, where you build a unique character, a unique brand, a unique mindset, which causes luck to find you.

For example, let’s say you’re the best person in the world at deep-sea diving. You’re known to take on deep-sea dives nobody else will even dare to attempt. By sheer luck, somebody finds a sunken treasure ship off the coast they can’t get to. Well, their luck just became your luck, because they’re going to come to you to get to the treasure, and you’re going to get paid for it.

You’ll definitely enjoy this book – lots of gems.

Read more here.

Throwing Salt In the Wound…

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LMAO
(Via: @jchazhi @Espn @raptors)September 14, 2020

Westbrook is a clown for this and this edit of adding in the cutest daughter in the NBA (Fred Van Fleet’s) is just too hilarious.

For context, Westbrook got into it with a fan who called him trash and gave him the Dame Lillard goodbye wave. That fan was Rajon Rondo’s brother who Westbrook was talking trash to on a prior play about having to double team him while down almost 30 points in the game. Clown.

This is the play that led up the original moment…

Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.

Vibe out to some Thelonious Monk over the weekend.