[.highlight-paragraph] “If it don’t feel right then it ain’t” [.highlight-paragraph] was a motto adopted by Rakish over the course of some time and became our public-facing slogan about a year and a half ago... Doubling down on values and intuition, for me, has always felt better. I rather be stung by a bee than wear an ill-fitting pair of shoes for a protracted length of time. To each their own, of course.
When I occupied lower and middle management positions at commercial production companies, context for why I was asked to complete a given task was rarely given. If I queried repeatedly I might glean a glimmer of reason (enough, say, to build a speculative conclusion). At Rakish every single person (staffer, director, et al) was to be given all context for why we did this or that or made X decision to respond to Y problem. This created a culture of [.highlight-paragraph] eager learning; [.highlight-paragraph] an openness for idea-sharing across the entire operation; created a safe space of sharing overall because all agendas were transparent. This style made for the most wonderful team dynamic I’ve experienced in my career; recreating it will be a dragon I chase for the rest of my life.
We at Rakish leave you with this: [.highlight-paragraph] Do not strive; just do. Do not worry. Pause and assess your surroundings. Take a breath. Say please and thank you. Take joy in the challenge. Be stimulated by what you don’t know. Open your mind. Go with your gut. Bear your truth with pride, no matter how fearful or ugly you may think it is. Speak up. Listen. Make things that have a message of addition; not subtraction. [.highlight-paragraph]
[.highlight-paragraph] SECRET TIP........ [.highlight-paragraph] If you know how to pretend to be colorblind (wailing, sobbing, & collapsing in the gift shop, etc) Tim the intern will take you to the managerwho will give you a full refund and free parking pass (and you dont even need to own a car either).
[.highlight-paragraph] Sir Ebert is a legend but he got this1 wrong. [.highlight-paragraph] Kholio believes this is the best moovie most ppl havent seen: Martin Balsam on a toilet; post modern orson welles without a beard; the baby geniuses guy doing stuff before he got baby geniusy; Garfinkel in an amazing two hander scene with a synic;
One time i was [.highlight-paragraph] writing in my diary [.highlight-paragraph] and i wrote about how fucking anoying it is to write longhand bc by the time i'm onto a word my train of thought has shifted. And i was like 'if i could write two diff thoughts at the same time with diff hands that'd be prefrable.' this is bullshit.