“If we expect nothing, we will get nothing”
This is one of those posts that makes you feel like the world is trying to shake you out of a stupor. Matt Duffy is...
2025
This is one of those posts that makes you feel like the world is trying to shake you out of a stupor. Matt Duffy is...
When's the last time you sat down and just...listened to music? Not as background for work, not while exercising, not during your commute. Just listening....
Keith and I shared many classes in university, and I've been so happy and grateful to see him writing prolifically over the past year. We...
More than two years after it was published, I still think about this provocative post by Ted Chiang. Will A.I. Become The New McKinsey? We...
Sasha Chapin wrote about How to like everything more, and it made me think about how important it is to cultivate appreciation. A lot of...
Collin Lysford, in a recent issue of his Desytemize newsletter, eases into a thoughtful discussion about intelligence (artificial and otherwise) through a baking analogy. Here's...
Adam Mastroianni, writer of the unmissable Experimental History newsletter, recently shared some writing wisdom in a piece called 28 slightly rude notes on writing. Here's...
If someone were to ask me how to improve their copywriting, this is what I'd tell them: The best writer is the one who can...
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If you’ve ever stored Logic Pro X project files (.logicx) in Google Drive, you may have gone back to them after a while only to...
I've written a shareable guide to using AI responsibly at a company—any company. Maybe even your company. You can find it at howweuseai.guide. It starts...
Every time I sit down to write music these days, I’m visited by an unwelcome thought. Somewhere, right now, my art—music and writing—is being ground...
These days, I’m less inclined to invest my time, my trust, and myself in the enormous tech companies looming over us like a gathering storm....
Obsidian is a topic of deep interest for me and for many of you reading this, so I wanted to follow up on my first...
Back in 2017, Bowers & Wilkins convinced me that wireless audio had reached a point of excellence. I no longer own the P7, but today...
A core tenet of audiophile folklore is “burn-in”, the idea that headphones, speakers, and other audio equipment benefits from a period of time (usually measured...
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2024
I don’t have to like it, I don’t have to trust it...but I also don’t have to doubt it at every turn. One thing I...
I’m not sure there’s been any product I’ve had a more mixed relationship with than the AirPods Max. I returned my first pair…then missed them...
To slow down time. Life feels longer when there’s more of it to look back on. Take more photos and you preserve more memories. The...
Lately, I’ve found myself captivated by analog watches. I spent a long time admiring them from afar, mostly as intricate little capsules of human ingenuity...