Harry Mack: Flow Patterns 101

freestyling a lesson in rhythmic subdivisions from quarter note to 16ths and more

Harry Mack: How To Improve Free Association

[Practice free association with your notes app by making a list starting with any word and following it with whatever comes to mind. Try to be non-judgemental. More important that it makes sense to you than to other people. When you're comfortable to try with a beat, you can just fill space with "uhh" or other rhythmic sounds and simply land on your next word to practice changing in time.]

Music training really trains you to break things down into managable parts. A great teacher exposes the atomic elements of a practice so that you can find the right entry point for your level of skill or experience.

Harry Mack: How To Get Better At Freestyle Rapping - Setup, Punchline

[Practice is strategically targetting your weaknesses to help them improve over time.]

[Wanting to sound great means willing to sound bad so that you can practice.]

[Deciding what object in the room you'll freestyle about and what to call it takes up mental RAM that could be spared if you use a simple word generator to practice.]

engagement-bait accounts love to weaponize Cunningham’s law:

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer"

it's a lose-lose for the target because if you don't reply it allows misinformation to spread, if you do reply it boosts the post

Roberta Sá: Quando o Canto É Reza (2015)

• Mandingo: starts with a 3 guitar fugue, Barravento + Bach
• Marejada: has this chord voicing that pierces me

ኃይለየሱስ ፈይሳ [Haileyesus Feyssa]: ፍቅር ተወደደ [Fikir Tewedede]

nice surprise change in timefeel in the beginning; multiple beats/rhythms simultaneously

Virginia Rodrigues: Vá Cuidar de Sua Vida

sweet melody and lyrics with references to capoeira and candomblé

When you notice conflict or strong emotions being minimized, beware.

[Appeasement is always a red flag in relationships.]

How an Open-Source Marketing Lab works

[A self-regulating label doesn't make you trustworthy, but means that you can be tested, which favours those who implement the protocol.]

[The goal is to make good actors provable as opposed to punishing bas actors.]

Big L: Put It On

like this beat

Welcome to the feudal states of AI

constant trade from local control to centralisation, from regulation to acceleration, from protection to adaptation, from ownership to access and from public oversight to industry governance. Future citizens are reduced to data sources that are constantly monitored and require continuous retraining.

Are you writing a book on software engineering?

You're focused on the output (the book). I'm focused on the outcome (understanding). AI is great for output but that is not what is needed or wanted.

self-hosting is complex when nerds only consider other nerds

Gal Costa: Cantar (1974)

• Barato Total: funky groove; percussive singing; everything tightly in the pocket
• Flor Do Cerrado / Garota De Ipamena (Medley): two songs get supeimposed; fun interlocking rhythms and offbeat landings
• Jóia: fourth harmonization
• Até Quem Sabe: João Donato style sustain chords and instrumental singing

You may have seen Andrej Karpathy's post on his "LLM Wiki" — Markdown notes in a Git repo, edited by an LLM, and read in Obsidian. It's a very effective pattern.

TiddlyWiki turns the vault into something live. Index files that LLMs have to keep manually in sync become computed views that always reflect reality. YAML frontmatter becomes a small queryable database the LLM can sort and filter against. And the LLM can author not just notes but small interactive views — dashboards, glossaries, journal indexes — that compose with your own customisations.

In short: a notes folder becomes a programmable surface.

Louis Cole: Outer Moat Behavior

seems like the same material repeats for almost two minutes, but still interesting; cool "rising" sensation in the bass with these complex chord changes in the background

João Donato: Doce de Amora

childlike silliness, playful but not superficial

nowhere

Nowhere encodes an entire website into a URL fragment. The site lives in the link itself and is never stored on a server.

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