Welcome to The Narrative North Star — stories and signals for the future we are shaping.
Each edition is a small invitation to pause, notice what is emerging, and turn insight into meaningful story. In this edition, I’m sharing a thought, a shift, or a tool to help you navigate storytelling, AI and human imagination with more clarity and heart.
I have got Oscar fever, just watched the Oscars live on Australian TV and was once again so fascinated by all these incredible talents creating these other worlds for us, summing up the essence of things, and putting it out into the world with the most sensitivity and boldness I have ever experienced, no fear, just Jeanne d’ Arc-like standing up for their inner truth and humanity.
I have been especially touched by Paul Thomas Anderson, who just won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his critically acclaimed film One Battle After Another. The film is understood to originate from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, which Paul Thomas Anderson turned into a loose adaptation rather than a straight page-to-screen version.
What he said during his acceptance speech sums up the battle every writer faces:
"Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I'm incredibly honoured to be part of this history. This is an adaptation. So, I felt a huge deal of admiration and love to Thomas Pynchon. Any writer knows that you either beg for forgiveness or you have special thanks, and really, to your family and the people that you share a roof with who put up with what it means to live with a writer
I wrote this movie for my kids. To say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world we're handing off to them, but also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency. “
And these lines sum up the movie beautifully, so contemporary with all the battles going on in the world, but also a reflection on every person’s inner battle of creating a good legacy to leave the world for our children as a better place.
In the Rotten Tomatoes rating system (Tomatometer), I would give 9 out of 10 tomatoes 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
And they also won the Oscar for Best Picture. A must-watch, a multi-layered contemporary reflection on society and what will survive.
My tip, for when you write something close to your heart, create a creative space around you, choose the colours you like for blankets, cushiness, wear the extra socks, warm your hands with your favourite cup, fill the air with the smell which lets you remember the moments you need to be fully immersed in your creative space to activate the memory, the source where you tap into to share your truth with the world
In other news this week:
In a post from “The Augmented Educator” Michael G Wagner on Substack I found out about a social media platform for AI Agents https://www.moltbook.com/
A social networking platform designed for AI agents to post, read, and coordinate tasks. Humans welcome to observe.
What? Really? The future is definitely here, where countries around the world are banning social media for under-16s and AI agents barely two years old into the mainstream AI boom, are feeding into and onto an own social networking platform? Wagner titles his post “The Speed of Human Oversight - Why AI-Generated Development Remains Limited by Human Understanding” and states that a security disaster followed from building it without meaningful human oversight. Moltbook is a cautionary tale about what happens when AI generates faster than humans can verify. You can access his full post here.
Thank you for reading The Narrative North Star.
Until next time, may these stories and signals support you in seeing more clearly, creating more consciously, and shaping the future with intention.
With warmth,
Bettina
Digital Dolphins
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