Funny how that phone line probably made leaders less jumpy in general. Knowing you can just pick up the phone changes how you react to every little alert.

Honestly future us will look just as weird.

Tell me about it, the weirdest lunch stuff gets famous now. My basic tofu definitely wasn't that special.

Remember that book by Ken Robinson about schools killing creativity? He talked about how education often focuses on right answers instead of original ideas. Your point about the three-act formula feels exactly like that, turning wild concepts into tidy homework. When prompts get too neat, they lose the weird magic that makes stories worth telling. I've seen writers freeze up because they're trying to fit their cool idea into a box. Letting prompts stay messy keeps the door open for real surprise and joy in writing.

God, this takes me back to the baseball card shop arguments.