Let's talk about how to pick a charity....
[Charities that hire talented people can give donors more confidence, even if the organization isn't well-known.]
Let's talk about how to pick a charity....
[Charities that hire talented people can give donors more confidence, even if the organization isn't well-known.]
I’m very attached to my kid, but I don’t expect him to be attached to me. I don’t want him to feel more tied to some people than others. I hope he ventures out into the world, makes new bonds, and feels no obligation to me. He doesn’t owe me anything. His life is his own. He didn’t ask to be born, and has no debts.
Ali Abdaal / Deep Dive | Derek Sivers
[Instead of asking if someone is free to talk, just call: the ringtone is the ask.]
God drugs those who drug themselves.
[Conversation has an arc, but also needs a spark.]
[Challenge people to contrast with what others have said. Encourage them to talk to each other.]
[Togetherness needs a plurality of relationships. Demonstrate a personal connection with you during intros. Show them they can participate in different levels.]
[Prompt in the event description to collect and come with thoughts about questions.]
[People love to be invited, and feel egotistical about barging in on a conversation (everyone seems smart, why should i talk?).]
Pay What You Want and the Four Currencies
[Optional contributions in software don't work because they're more of a pain in the ass than the free experience. If you forced a minimum price of even a cent, people would likely be more generous than the minimum because they're already in the payment process.]
[Journalism helps you learn about the world and understand what's around.]
From Caetano Veloso (1986). I’m overwhelmed by the simplicity of this little tune: just voice and simple guitar patterns can vividly paint an entire scene, with this bright, lilting mood. The singing and accompaniment are rhythmically fused in a way that makes it natural to embody. It was written for Caetano’s sister Maria Bethânia, whose hair may resemble a lion’s mane. The percussive clicking might be unique to this version of the song. See the lyrics for a translation.
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1835)
A live performance (with hands as the focal point) of a friend and pianist from Italy playing this masterpiece, followed by an analysis explaining what makes certain parts of this piece stand out from other repertoire. I enjoy this fluidity of being able to talk about music that one performs, to help other people hear what’s going on and find their way in.
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Another release from Kidi Band (featured in #022). I initially didn’t make the connection that this was the same group, so they truly managed to captivate me twice—it became distracting to do anything else and I just wanted to listen. I tend to avoid ‘loud’ music, but this reminds me that it’s possible for me to enjoy it. Thoughtful, complex, and emotional. My favourite moments: How Long with busy, intricate, active drumming in the midst of graceful, expansive, widening sung phrases, plus a polyphonic polyrhythmic sundae in the middle; the rhythmic singing in Mountain, feeling like a collective rhythm machine with sudden metric changes; Fever Driver’s dense, rich texture, heavily lilting from side to side (or maybe in circles) might get you high.
My former professor started writing in public recently and managed to describe transcendence in what we, here on the Internet, refer to as a “cat picture”. I’m fond of lenses that help us see the sublime in ordinary experiences. There is so much we can learn from animals and nature, such as paying attention to our natural reactions and inhibitions. Feels also like a kind of oblique strategy.
Here is Stella, instructing us on how to look at something we’ve never seen before. As our resident cat-comedian with a gift for irony, she is wondering whether this item — a conductor’s baton — can be worked in as “A” material for her next vaudeville show. The baton is also about to become a tooth sharpener, but we’ll explore that in a moment. Here, Stella is elevating attention itself into an art form, and teaching us to do the same. If that idea doesn’t resonate with you, please find your inner still-point and a moment to drink in her lucent, emerald gaze.
Let's talk about Thanksgiving with your liberal mom....
[Frame it as a dream because in some cases people like to make dreams come true.]
Maybe waiting implies an attachment to what comes 'after' whereas being present has no distinctions.
'How can I be present?' - A conversation with Casey Sokol
[To be in the present of one note versus one phrase versus one movement versus one concert versus one lifetime.]
[I'm not depressed, I'm bored. Bored as in not interested in anything. Interested as in not having a direction for my energy.]
[Pain is a sensation. Suffering is the negation of that experience.]
[The easier it is, the more likely people will do it: write the introduction email so that they don't have to.]
[If they're excited about something and remind you to bring it up later, ask them right away.]
[If they receive a second wave of ideas after the interview ends, ask permission to record again.]
Let's talk about society, laws, and two phrases....
[Representatives should not make any decisions, and rather simply vote the way a majority of the constituents in their district wants.]
[By the time a law has been passed, a majority of people have already changed their thinking: it's not a leading indicator but an enforcement mechanism.]
[Societal change happens in your skull.]
My hope is just that reading these snippets may remind you of things you have forgotten, and that you can reconnect with thise oleasurable memories.
[He was there listening to his little kid play music. His enjoyment transfered to me and increased mine. His listening supported my listening. I was able to give something back to my dad.]
[Sound and silence are complementary. Take equal care when playing either.]
[Rests are less the absence of something and more the presence of nothing.]
[What people call random might simple be too complex to explain.]
[Instead of telling me what 'root' meant, he asked me what I know about roots. When I explained that plants have roots and hold up the rest, he made the connection with roots of a chord that 'supports' the other notes.]
[When I asked which G should I play, he suggested that I try all of them and see which one I was happy with.]