Saturday, January 19, 2019

The most read stories this week - The "I'd prefer not" mindset, The best free online film course, The Indian subtitle economy & more..

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I'd always been trained to believe that doing "enough" is bad, and "slowing down" means failure. But running faster doesn't give you more energy. It doesn't make you happier, either. Because when your motivation is fear of failure - demarcated by standards you didn't set, and goalposts you'll always move - success of any form - a quiet Sunday morning, a mile run unbridled, or even a big promotion - becomes ephemeral. Failure, I've come to learn, is to be overwhelmed, unhappy, and unfulfilled. Which means that success, quite simply, means peace. To achieve peace, we don't need to step off the treadmill. But we do need to slow it down. To leave situations, jobs, and relationships that cause us pain, or feel too heavy. To do less. Read the full story here.

Mohit Shetty talks about languages as if they are people. "Tamil is missing." "Is Hindi on its way?" "Telugu will be here by evening, right?" he asks his team over the phone. In the last six months, Shetty's post-production company QLAB has subtitled 3,600 hours of English content for streaming platforms. To put things into perspective: that's 30 times the content of the Friends sitcom that had 236 episodes, each running for about half an hour. It's been a high volume, high stress task. More on how content streaming platforms like Netflix have created an economy around subtitles in India here

Ever get the feeling that Zara employees know something we don't? Where are the best sale items in the store? How often do new shipments arrive? Is it worth it to order items online? Who's responsible for the elegantly dressed mannequins at the front of the store? Well, the secrets are out: here are 11 things about Zara you've always wanted to know .

Who needs film school when you can just follow Guillermo del Toro on Twitter? The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water and Pan's Labyrinth took to Twitter today to write a 10-tweet analysis of Alfonso Cuarón's film Roma - one of the top contenders for the Academy Award for best picture. Casting his masterful director's eye on the film, del Toro deduces Cuarón's intentions with several of the choices he made. And this was just the latest in del Toro's long history of using his Twitter feed for insightful film criticism and curation. The best free online film course is Guillermo del Toro's twitter feed

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