Visualizing texts by frequency of their punctuation marks. I’ve always been a fan of data visualization, especially condensing an entire work into a single graphic to facilitate comparisons. I did this once when studying Hindustani music by transcribing an improvisation and mapping out which notes of the raga were used and how they were approached (laborious but interesting to look at). Curious to try this on my own writing some day to know what it ‘looks’ like.
From The Delta Sweete (1968). Complex interleaving of multiple parts with folksy Southern USA accents. Listen to the percussive clapping, bass drum, and guitar on the left channel, with voice and trumpets in the right channel. Reminds me of Moondog.
[We like people in so many ways (physically, or as a friend, or socially, or intellectually) and when we break up, we need to break each of those aspects before leaving.]
Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience
[Describe interesting things you've done in your life to build credibility: share what you learned or what someone like you would want to know.]
[You can document things that have already happened. Some of it might resonate with others.]
[An indicator of credibility is that people will want to ask you questions to learn more about your experience.]
[It wasn't the book, but documenting how I published it that gave me credibility in self-publishing.]
[Success is not followers but people wanting to hear what you have to say.]
[They either need to be getting something from you or getting to know you as a person.]
[Giving means they stop on your tweet and don't regret it. Asking means anything that benefits you directly, like clicking links.]
[Use your pinned tweet to gain credibility.]
[Inspiration can be something interesting that happened today, things that took a lot of effort to figure out, answers you gave in your conversations that could be relevant to your audience.]
[Find the intersection of interesting to you, interesting to your audience, and having credibility to say it.]
[Don't tag people hoping they'll notice you.]
[Build your credibility, promote it everywhere, and look for opportunities to build more credibility.]
[Give and ask with a seven to one ratio.]
Israel Fernández: Fiesta (Bulería)
At COLORSxSTUDIOS (2021). The simplicity of a powerful voice accompanied by delicate clapping and feet hitting the floor, heard in stereo. Even without understanding the lyrics, one can appreciate how the fierce singing cuts through your prefrontal lobe. An example of making music with the body and whatever’s around (the desk might have been my primary instrument for years). As an aside: there’s too much good music on this show, and I would appreciate recommendations.
[Do whatever you like, but take each action with full awareness.]
[Darkness can never become ingrained because it it NOT.]
[Experiences are illusory: only the one who experiences them is true. Pay attention to the witness.]
[The sense organs are windows, not projectors.]
[Not 'one remains' but 'two is gone'.]
[Trying to not think a thought gives energy to it, and it will come back to bother you.]
[The solution is always to watch.]
[The root is never above ground: attacking the visible is like fighting shadows.]
[Mind is like a crowd: we think something larger exists but there are only the individual thoughts arranged together tightly.]
[Pay attention to the gaps between thoughts.]
[Even clinging to a thought is not possible because it will eventually die: they aren't yours and don't belong to you—just visiting.]
[Watch for things that neither come nor go, like the sky.]
Notes app musings: proposals for resonate community to consider from a label perspective
[Show something that's unavailable and provide a means to signal intent with which to inform future decisions.]
if i have the space and freedom to give attention to others spontaneously, the same applies to self-care: there is no bad time to do it, be welcome.
How I got wealthy without working too hard
[Making money is a form of procrastination (option to decide later) and the cost of that option is inflation.]
[Big cities are a geographical rat-race: don't compete.]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Rare Things Grow
From EARS (2016). Mishmash of many exquisite textures: water glugging, saxophone flutters with delay and reverb, possessed drone voices, quartal harmonies, celestial singing, some shakers in just the right places. Hinting at indigenous musics through instrumentation and motifs, but unapologetically electronic, jazz, and modern. The cover art might be a good metaphor for how this strange and beautiful thing makes you want to keep staring, or listening.
You certainly can’t make a cake by collecting a few eggs in Asia and walking across an entire continent to where the wheat is, all while picking up milk and sugar somewhere along the way.
[Listen as if people are telling you a bedtime story.]
[When working on something you don't want for a while, the 'what I want' zone not only shuts down, but becomes associated with fear, sadness, pain, suppression.]
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Are We Living in a Golden Age?
[When something succeeds and everyone rushes in, creating a hug of death.]
The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
[No evidence can indicate that 1) there were no studies; 2) there were studies proving the claim is false; 3) we assume it foolish to test.]
