How We Ditched Venture Capital and Let a Competitor Fund Our Startup
[A startup is not one idea but a thousand ideas in one direction.]
How We Ditched Venture Capital and Let a Competitor Fund Our Startup
[A startup is not one idea but a thousand ideas in one direction.]
I just get octopus vibes watching his hands move around so fluidly.
داليا [Dalia]: اللي يمشي عادي [Elly Yemshy 3ady] (2021)
I have so much nostagia for Egypt. The ornamentation in their music has a warmth that I haven’t heard anywhere else.
Fabrice Koffy, Marika Galea, Michael Go: Le Soir
From Montréal Sound Resistance: Chapitre I (2021) builds from French spoken word to trio music, to an improvised duo with a lovely African triplet feel. The bilingual album of poetry and spoken word is made in Montreal and dedicated to the memory of George Floyd.
From O Rei Do Carimbó (1983). Yormidable tongue-twister from a Brazillian traditional dance form. I learned that this is the same genre as No Meio do Pitiú from #002.
From ARENA (2021). Beatboxer’s dream and head banger.
Squarepusher x Z-MACHINES: Music For Robots (2014)
Trippy mix of atonal harmonies, jazz solos over drum-n-bass, glitchy video-game music. Sounds like something going wrong, with great precision.
Glitchy, hip-hop jazz had my head boppin’ for twenty-five minutes.
Francis Bebey: Akwaaba — Music For Sanza (1985)
Mbira and raw vocals are set to funky pentatonic bass grooves accompanied by other African percussion. You will sway from side to side.
Joyce Moreno: Revendo Amigos (1994)
Jazz harmonies and wordless melodies.
Joyce Moreno: Passarinho Urbano (1976)
Chock-full of sambas in stereo. Led me to Revendo Amigos (1994), with the kind of jazz harmonies and wordless melodies that I enjoy.
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.