484 entries for 2021

[Digital garden + zero data implies a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.]

[Getting more people involved can be a path to mentoring others.]

[What's the purpose of everything? in the code… in the app…]

LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"

[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]

[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]

[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]

Open-source doesn't mean build it only in the ways defined by software tools like GitHub: we can meet up, talk about it, help each other, organize together in our own ways.

Dopplebanger: Pussylicker

Mashes up three different songs with electronic grooves and well-placed cowbell.

Lil Nas X: MONTERO (2021)

Outside my milieu, genre-wise, but it’s a bodyshaker that deserves to be blasted on good speakers. The artist explores their sexuality with visual metaphors and vibrant colours.

Amy Winehouse: Cupid

From The Ska EP (2008) might be the song that gets me into ska—I would describe it as ‘uplifting’.

Don Cherry: Lito

From Live At The Bracknell Jazz Festival (1986). Featuring flinging tongues, African grooves, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Ron Everett: Glitter of the City (1977)

Traditional jazz and swing sounds with weird stuff, and I dug several tracks: Royal Walk_ with warbly instrumentals, loops, screeching, spoken word; Tipsy Lady’s blues/hip-hop and old school drums; Pretty Little Girl’s singing off-key Latin vibe; the 8-bit bossa nova of Untitled No. 4.

Joana Queiroz: Memórias (2019)

Live performance where she builds sound structures with loop pedals and various clarinets, accompanied at times by graceful dancing. Sublime colouring in the photography and clothing.

Joana Queiroz: Performance sonora

Live improvised “sound performance” from 2021. There’s something pure and unfiltered about a human being making music with an acoustic instrument while walking through nature. Accompanying is the sound of birds, dogs, air, footsteps, singing, a self-playing accordion, a fireplace, frogs…

Joana Querioz: Diários de Vento (2016)

Seamlessly integrates nature and song and humanity: it’s the sound of someone enjoying instrument timbres and ambience. Around clarinet melodies there’s a duet with a fly, a child warbling their tongue, clanging pots and pans, squeaking of a rocking chair, lots of tasty sounds. Ai qué delicia!

[Ideals are negotiated.]

[I don't seek change.]

Digital Sovereignty.

[All maps are projections, imperfect representations of space.]

On Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners and Theft.

[Pioneers build the first prototypes of new technologies. Settlers make it accessible profitable. Town planners make it a commodity that enables new pioneers.]

[Create incentives for each group to steal from the other.]

[Each group has a different culture. Not to be subsumed under 'company culture'.]

Qui suis-je et Pourquoi la clarté est la base de l'entrepreneuriat

[Identifier trois mots qui décrivent la personne que tu veux être et régler une alarme trois fois par jour pour te rappeller que tu es cette personne.]

[Quelles sont les compétences que tu manques pour réussir dans ton business?]

[Comment est-ce que je peux ajouter plus de valeur?]

[Community growth isn't about management but developing leaders.]

[If one of your hand-raisers isn't ready to lead yet, let them do something small in scope to help build reflexes and experience.]

[Map out leaders' journeys from development to growth so that you can supercharge their activities: prepare to give them the right support at the right moment.]

[Anticipate their difficulties: offer training if they have fears about first-time hosting; provide templates if they're worried it takes long to make presentations; organize resources in one place if they spend time looking for supporting documents.]

[Reach out to organizers to ask where the road bumps are.]

Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features

[Help counter participation inequality by making it easier to contribute; making participation a side effect of other things they did; offering templates to avoid intimidating blank pages; rewarding participation with badges or discounts; showcasing great contributions.]