[The coolest thing to say when receiving gratitude is not 'you're welcome' but 'pass it on'.]
[Nourishment leads to more growth than coddling.]
[Like babies, challenge ideas not when they are fragile but when they have grown legs.]
[The coolest thing to say when receiving gratitude is not 'you're welcome' but 'pass it on'.]
[Nourishment leads to more growth than coddling.]
[Like babies, challenge ideas not when they are fragile but when they have grown legs.]
Michael, Dwight and Andy: the Three Aesthetics of the Creative Class
[Upper class proles project 'I am winning'; Middles project 'I am serious'; Upper middles project 'I am at ease'.]
[Upper class proles show they are 'winning' by talking about daytrading, fantasy sports, and other publicly abailable information that is really about them. This is in place of ticket stubs and receipts that in the past would have been whipped out of their wallet to prove something.]
[The middles show they are 'correct' by discussin talking points and everything that's wrong with the world as an obvious contrast to themselves.]
[The upper middles show they are at ease by not pretending, as the middles do, but by gossiping hints about the secret context that no one else knows.]
[When the conversation turns yo real estate, the upper proles talk about prices, the middles talk about demographic and social issues, and the upper middles talk about renovation.]
['How does this person fit my ideal?' versus 'Here's a unique person.']
Live from a solo bass concert in 2012, has a celestial atmosphere with melodic vocal inflections. I dream of having this kind of expression when I play guitar.
From Eclipse (1978). Sounds like a voice with similar inflections.
Mother Nature and BoatHouse: HANDZOFF
From SZNZ (2021). The self-professed ‘most dynamic hip-hop duo of all time’. I feel like the verses fill so much space that the breathing is dramatic. Massive sound, blast.
Fredy V & The Foundation: Your Own Way
From One Step (2021). Intro bassline that’s so dark! A perfect groove to accompany the body paint and photography.
BNegão & Os Seletores de Frequência’s: (Funk) Até O Caroço
From Enxugando Gelo (2004). Hip-hop and funk headbanger with a bad-ass guitar riff.
BaianaSystem: O Futuro não Demora (2019)
Various pop/dance rhythms from Brazil.
Shaolin Afronauts: Flight Of The Ancient (2011)
Afrojazz, wild honky saxophone solos, dorian modes, to which you can dance for 45 minutes straight.
Ilessi: Dama de Espadas (2020)
Complex, vital, emotional, and very not-weak-sauce: Dama de Espadas is a bold, rough and sassy blues in Portuguese; Oração pro Gil has onomatopoeic cantations over an African groove; the sort of hard rock vibe in Vivo ou Morto took me by surprise.
Imagine walking into a park and seeing a professional Brazilian guitarist sitting alone in a gazebo practicing his own complex jazz and classical compositions, in a pandemic, in a city where people don’t normally sit alone in parks and practice guitar. I'm grateful this musician shared his music (and let me listen with social distancing).
Jacob Collier: Moon River (a cappella, 2019)
Sublime celestial splendor sung by the chorus of a thousand stars. Not sure how I missed it but I think one cannot die before hearing this. I am still working my way through his in-depth hour-and-a-half music nerdery around the creation of this masterpiece.
[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]
[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]
[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]
[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]
[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]
[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]
[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]
[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]
[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]
[Peer maker group.]
[Introduce yourself, what are you working on, what programming language.]
[What did you learn, add this week? challenges?]
[Anyone do marketing?]
[Users talk with makers.]
[Most people don't try stuff? Encourage serendipity.]
[Build measure learn.]
[Integrating this into your practice.]
How to LEARN ANY LANGUAGE on Your Own (Fast!)
[Walk around with the target language playing and try to repeat back phrases that you hear.]
[Digital garden + zero data implies a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.]
[Getting more people involved can be a path to mentoring others.]
[What's the purpose of everything? in the code… in the app…]
LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"
[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]
[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]
[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]