Rosano / Journal

281 entries under "thought"

Thursday, January 30, 2025

psa to please help your friends setup tech alternatives as a social event: switch together so everyone transitions successfully with known contacts on the new platform. lone profiles leave momentum on the table.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

when heading somewhere people ask "have everything you'll need?" and as a backpacker i respond "i took everything i have".

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

when someone uses a different system of understanding than yours, responding with "try my system instead" is not convincing.

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Thursday, November 14, 2024

When does it make sense to focus on not liking someone's approach versus accepting and appreciating diverse ways?

Friday, September 20, 2024

I was told a long time ago that 'modeling your classical music performance on recordings can ruin your artistic integrity because it distracts you from finding your own interpretation'. Only now have I considered how this can parallel in improvised music, where playing 'like the recording' leads me to be detached from my current needs and capacity. It's more honest to understand a song from the recording, but without using it as an excuse to skip over dealing with current challenges, which might mean performing it in a way that bears little resemblance to the original, and this can be constructive.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

[Having things implies responsibility, and giving them away implies giving away responsibility.]

Sunday, July 7, 2024

leftovers are also for project work: best to ensure them as a goal so that we have a way back in, but also so that we can combine unsuspecting components into a spontaneous composition.

Thursday, June 27, 2024

[Compare something unfamiliar with the familiar can nudge us toward taking care for our safety.]

Monday, June 24, 2024

Leftovers are the requisite variety I need to feel comfortable cooking at home, so I should consider it the goal instead of avoiding it like an efficiency issue.

Monday, June 3, 2024

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Friday, May 24, 2024

Write when hungry. Read when fed.

Programming require you to reify anything in order to act on it, whereas in the physical world you can directly engage with your environment.

It may be easier to change analog than digital.