Moxie Marlinspike's career advice:
There’s no rush to get started early on a never-ending task.
Everything before a career has defined beginnings and endings. Elementary school, middle school, junior high, highschool, university. There’s always been a predefined end, and that contributes a lot to making the indignities of those institutions b... See more
The fetishization of problematic Black artists in America by white listeners is a well-documented tradition that goes back at least as far as Alan Lomax interviewing and recording Lead Belly while he was imprisoned for attempted murder at Louisiana State Penitentiary in the 1930s.
Churchill said another way to spell “perfectionism” is P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-S. It’s good to have high standards but all virtues become vices if taken too far.
Creative people are restless souls, forever chasing the horizon until they’ve made something substantial. We spend our lives crafting weighted blankets for ourselves—something heavy enough to anchor our ambition and quiet our minds.
First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I’ve had to go through it all. Apology.