Building real bonds amongst diverse groups of strangers
[Get everyone to send a fun fact about themselves. Give everyone someone else's fact. Ask them to find their person.]
Building real bonds amongst diverse groups of strangers
[Get everyone to send a fun fact about themselves. Give everyone someone else's fact. Ask them to find their person.]
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My father and I sharing a new language with each other through flashcards.
This is Yagmuk. He lives in Ipmulaakiituk with his wife and children and eighteen moose. Since 2004, every single bill in the American health care system has gone to Yagmuk. He cannot read English, so he tears them into little shreds and burns them in the winter to keep warm. One day providers will realize he’s not paying, and the whole medical system will collapse.
[Banning code exploits itself can hurt efforts to counter DRM for autonomy.]
[Software exploits can be more dangerous than bombs because they are more likely to be used.]
[When exploits are used, we don't find out immediately; sometimes only years later, wheras bombs will be reported on the evening news.]
[Like viruses, exploits can be spread: using it is a risk of losing it.]
[Create a world that people want to come into and explore without you being there.]
[Worlds provide challenges for people and communicate what the next step is.]
[Challenges that you embrace and overcome can help create an identity.]
Joyce Moreno & Toninho Horta: Sem Você (2007)
Two of my favourite artists in Brazil (or perhaps the world) on the same disc. Two masters playing samba, bossa nova, jazz, sublime guitar.
Azymuth: Light As A Feather (2012)
Complex yet danceable mix of jazz, fusion, and disco. Makes me feel like digging into Azymuth’s entire collection. Partido Alto has a funky offbeat rhythm that’s actually in 4; Avenida Das Mangueiras stomps along—driving pulse with funk sixteenth note solos; the second section of Light As A Feather mixes jazz and bossa nova brazil with an uber-tight drum foundation; Fly Over The Horizon reminds me of Weather Report; Jazz Carnival goes full on disco; Young Embrace is a bouncy, swaying electronic biological thing, obviously from Brazil.
The drummer from their band joined with Madlib to form “Jackson Conti” and release Sujinho (2008): jazz/hip-hop instrumentals mixed with pandeiro and all sorts of Brazilian instruments and rhythms, Coltrane-era sax solos, synth riffs, flute melodies—I’ve never heard anything like this.
From The World’s End soundtrack (2013). Body-shaker, head-banger, wall-breaker—100% energy using cues from techno song forms. I have some nostalgia for Lil Jon’s general screaming and expletives. Moving!
Lingua Ignota: PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE
From SINNER GET READY (2021). Filled with dark piano textures, and a strong, pure vocal tone that manages to create this deep and expansive intensity with just a few parts. Reminds me of how powerful the acoustic piano can be. You can hear the pedals of the piano triggering overtones…
How To Build A Massive, Pacific Ocean-Sized Differentiation Moat
[Lever 1: radically different benefit for a radically different problem. To not market the features but the outcome.]
A growth masterclass with Judd Legum of Popular Information
[Create a thread to condense key thoughts from larger texts.]
[Threads indicate you are a more thoughtful person and more likely lead to new followers.]
How Abigail Koffler grew her email list from scratch
[Each week is something to cook, something to order, and something to read.]
[I ask a question every week and include the responses in the following week.]
Languaging: The Strategic Use Of Language To Change Thinking
[Viagra had to invent a disease called erectile dysfunction to avoid saying 'impotent.']
[Whoever frames it and names it can claim it. You can become an authority by defining a category.]
[A grande is preceived to be more expensive than medium.]
[All great languaging involves one of the four arithmetic operations: what does it add? subtract? multiply? divide? The result can be longer, or in seconds, or an order of magnitude different.]
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Zero Data Swap #1: Schemas, interoperability, and Cambria
Schemas and the challenges of defining and standardizing them.
Sparks Between Us: Step Into The Comfort Inn
[Intimate when a performer is so absorbed in their own experience that they forget about their surroundings, the audience becomes observers.]
[I adore you.]
[I love everyone by default.]
How Far Ahead Am I Thinking While Freestyling?
Harry Mack slows down his freestyle process so that us mere mortals can understand how far in advance he plans.
How to solo on a II V I... LIKE A PRO!
Rich Brown (bassist extraordinaire) explains music theory of improvising on a fundamental chord progression and goes quickly from banal to outer space while describing both using the same framework. I have known the names of the Greek modes and their notes for a while, but only intellectually—I have hardly thought of them consciously while improvising. Here they are presented as composable parts and it seems approachable (using a ‘cheesy bossa nova’ backing track)—feels like I went from having one thing to do on each chord to 12 x 7 (= eighty-four…) possibilities.
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad feat Gary Bartz: Distant Mode
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have been recording a series since 2020 called Jazz is Dead with some renowned musicians. I have queued up all seven albums and am pretty sure at least one will end up here. One track called Distant Mode with saxophonist Gary Bartz caught my attention for its intricate drumming punctuated with sections of hyperspace warp speed that reminds me of Flying Lotus. They also collaborated with Method Man on Bulletproof Love from the LUKE CAGE soundtrack—the drum beat and rap lyrics feel like part of the same expression.