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Let's talk about improv and talking to liberals and centrists....
[Five rules of improv: 1) yes, and…; 2) no open ended questions; 3) make them look good; 4) no need to be funny; 5) tell a story and keep it going.]
[Centrist lack a theoretical framework, keep it focused on right and wrong.]
The roads to funding your community network projects....
[Make goals that are quantifiable, and achievable: big enough to matter and small enough to win. You want to overshoot your goal every single time. Set it up so that you win every single time.]
[In pre-advertising: announce what you're going to do and how people can get involved.]
[Naming your benefactors might create a burden of association when you are perceived as divisive. Maybe don't tell them or mention them until its done.]
[Remind people of the cause but don't focus on the negative aspect so that people walk away feeling positive. If they feel bad, they won't return.]
[Don't guess what they need: ask them.]
[Delivering on the goal means not failing: if you're short, cover out of pocket.]
[Document the delivery so that the people involved can see it after and feel good about making it happen.]
Making people feel they're participation made the difference isn't just for humility, it's to help them feel their impact.
Tagged: contribute.
[When Michelin started, the car market was small, so they published guides as a way to encourage more driving. Ogilvy had under twenty clients before writing Confessions of an Advertising Man. Content is king.]
Money - Simple English Wikipedia
[Through bartering, more value accrued to objects that were easier to carry around.]
[The first country to create a coin was Lydia, spreading to Greece and the Mediterranean, and eventually the rest of the world.]
[Money was favourable because it was interchangeable (fungible), could be easily divided or carried around, and lasted longer.]
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An app that listens to your environment, adds filters, plays it back to you via headphones in real time. Filters include ‘relax’ (drone in the background higher frequencies turn into water dripping), 'happy’ (as if raining and everything is echoed with long decay), 'sleep’ (combination of waterfall or white noise and echoes the environment); each filter has various levels that can be customized. Fun to play with, regardless of whether it actually helps you chill out or doze off—I’m curious to try them with more intention.
From Passenger (2011). Starting hook got my attention right away. Bright, sunny vibes created with vocals, strings, bass, percussion, and clapping; some of it would normally feel cliché to me, but I enjoyed this. The constant offbeats create a deep swing effect: your body will move.
Murali Coryell: Softly Let Me Kiss Your Lips
From Eyes Wide Open (2000). Prepare yourself for nine minutes of ‘stank-face inducing’ blues vocals, guitar solos, lush organ chords, straight on the triplet drums, scatting… Imagine starting your day with this.
From Lantern (2006). Pure instrumental bliss in this journey that lasts just two minutes. Simple harmonies on guitar that surprise by shifting with subtle voice-leading (often changing one note of the chord at a time). There might be hints of Bach in here, or maybe I’m just projecting what I want to hear.
From Kai Po Che ! (2013). Soundtrack for a Bollywood film, with lyrics in Gujarati. The introduction has a strong time feel without any rhythmic accompaniment. There’s bagpipes (!), and I know how odd it might be to feature that in Indian music, but the duduk-like instrument called ‘shehnai’ went right to my heart.
Let's talk about baseless claims about a guy named Ray....
[If someone encourages a crime but doesn't engage and that warrants arrest, then it would be ground to charge the politicians who did the same.]
[I love seeing someone living their extraness.]
Tagged: relate.
Writing down your thoughts requires you to observe them.
[Perfection without future evolution is dead.]
[Danger is life, and only the dead are beyond risk.]
[Obsession with a secure path leads to marriage and society.]
