Ideas I want to write about
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore (sculptor)
i’ll do more
the thing keeping me from being more of myself if thinking about doing things instead of just doing it. It’ll close morem ental loops and tire me out less, it’ll give me enough time to find my way to what only I can make.
In just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
why reading today is difficult
the deluge of blogs, publications, and people that find their way to you - demanding attention, is not conducive for meaningful engagement.
The experience economy
Building my music setup
orchestrator
Looper
Sampler
Rhythm
Synths
Guitar
setup
principles to regulate yourself
When feeling annoyed, restless
are you thirsty, hungry?
Do you need to answer the natures call?
Do you feel clean and fresh or sweaty and grimey?
Does you stomach feel bloated or acidic?
Have you slept enough in last 3 days?
When feeling out of sorts, stuck in a mental loop, depressed on a random day:
change something small
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
My generation is well-practiced in the art of ironic detachment, but too much coolness can end up as incuriosity: a premature assumption that there’s nothing to learn.