Let's talk about the top 25 animals and statistical comparisons....
[If comparisons are made without defining the criteria, it's probably propaganda.]
[Being on an exponential curve is weird because when you look back, it's flat, and when you look forward, it's vertical.]
[Measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.]
The Future of Education is Community: The Rise of Cohort-Based Courses
[Cohort-based courses (CBCs) can be more easily accomodate new information.]
[Video calls can be recorded, but they don't capture the magic of the experience, which makes it piracy-resistant.]
5 Ways to go from 1k to 2k Newsletter Subscribers
[Show FOMO by highlighting your best content in the landing pages. Prove that they missed something.]
Every Indie Hacker Has an Online Course in Them
[Shift your mindset towards 'allowing people to pay you'—as long as you are delivering the value promised, most people will be grateful for the offering and happy to support.]
[Ask 'so how did you get started?' so that people understand the guest's successes; this creates curiosity to know the details.]
[It's easier to sell one thing for $100 than a hundred things for $1.]
[The people who pay a lot of money need a lot less hand-holding than those who pay little because they invest themselves more.]
[What feels like work to everyone else but like play to you?]
[Frame in terms of outcomes instead of topics. What do they want to do? Who do they want to be?]
[Personal meaning for each student. Peer-to-peer learning. Prompts to action.]
[What's your memorable framework for summing up the medley of information?.]
[The 'birdsong technique' sounds more official than 'sit on the toilet and scroll through Twitter: naming and framing.]
[What would you teach to yourself three years ago?]
[Set input goals instead of outcome goals.]
Acemo: Where They At (Swaya’s remix)
Body-shaker of the week. The original comes alive with African percussion, echoed synths, and a stronger rhythmic drive.
Two things from musical master Jacob Collier, but not really about the music: 1) dance animations created from the spinning of a vinyl disc, and 2) he spells out words by playing the piano. The latter is something that normal humans accomplish via a lengthy editing process on the computer—he performs it live.
This lovely little bossa nova for kids (apparently going viral on TikTok, which I don’t use), comes from The Backyardigans, which is a show where every episode features a different music genre! Wish I grew up watching that… Adam Neely does a deep dive into the music theory devices employed in the song.
Punkt.vrt.Plastik: Somit (2021)
‘Spiky’ avant-garde jazz from Berlin. Vague meters and uneven clocks. I also grooved hard to the slightly steadier Nuremberg Amok from an older album.
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
[Google Reader and Feedburner were not victims but weapons used to ensure that only Google was extracting value from the industry.]
[Blogspot was an attempt to populate the search indexes because there was not much content. As advertisers started to push back, it became less worthwhile of an investment.]
[Open-source projects without revenue are either burnout waiting to happen, or a formerly well-paid developer coasting on savings, or a group that took venture capital.]
[Microsoft invests in VSCode, TypeScript, GitHub and npm to create business for Azure and other offerings.]
[The 'money hose' is a mechanism to ensure that big tech can control the ecosystem.]
[Capitalism will always find a way to exploit common resources. It's just a matter of time.]
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Let's talk about what I didn't talk about and a way to reach people....
[Presenting contradictory information to someone with a closely-held belief will trigger uncomfortable cognitive dissonance that makes them reject outright because it flies in the face of what they believe. Don't give them new information.]
[The truth cannot be told, it has to be realized.]
[Whataboutism is proof that people believe something is true across all systems.]
[Talking about the specifics of the situation will cause them to be rationalized by slogans and talking points. Talking about comparable situations in other places clarifies the principles so that they can come to the conclusion on their own.]
[Instead of talking about this conflict, talk about indigenous land disputes in the United States, about police excessive use of force in Black communities, about journalists being censored, talk about military action requiring concrete intelligence before pursuing a target in Afghanistan, talk about how South Africa was a strategically important region for imperialist powers, talk about how funds for military power are better directed towards schools and hospitals, talk about how security clampdowns only strengthen the resistance, talk a out how miners have made concessions while being on strike.]
[Those who are in power benefit from slogans, not from context.]
[I'm on the side of the civilians.]
[In/out is a spectrum, not a binary. Based on your root, you can be closer or farther away in terms of belonging in the tonality.]
Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies
[Allowing popular retailers to become banks creates a profit motive for debt, which reduces trading because people are not able to pay expensive loans. Introducing a secondary currency enables people to trade which deteriorates debt as a profit strategy.]
[Joining the network gives you 400, half of which is kept in a community pot for helping children, community lunches, waste collection…]
[The community knows what's best for them. They can back their own money.]
Cal Tjader: Complete Concert By The Sea
Lovely Latin jazz with congas and cowbells.
Meara O’Reilly: Hockets for Two Voices (2019)
If you liked the pygmy hockets from last week, check this out. In these exquisite duets with herself, she manages to create a diversity of moods using only the sound of her own voice.
High-energy vortex non-stop fire drumming.
Minute-long drum amen break escapade.
Mix of jazz, raga, and rock.
