There's a big delta between library and product development. Mastery of each requires intense discipline. Both are equally important.
Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
524 bits, and counting.
Never accept any hypothesis that the world is fixed.
Thank you, Starman.
One of the highlights of this last-minute trip has to be walking on a very frozen Lake Louise. The views are breathtaking.
My wife and I started 2016 by crossing something off our bucket list: seeing the northern lights.
The Commercial Zen of Muji. Great profile of one of my favorite brands.
Kitchen. Bottega Louie in Downtown LA.
Surfing in Maui and there are fun waves thanks to 3 hurricanes in the Pacific.
Daft Punk's 2007 remix album Alive is an amazing electronic album. Nearly a decade later and I'm still hearing new sounds.
Productive sick day: cooked brunch, started recording drums for a new album, went for a sunset hike, and now catching up on some reading.
Google should buy OnePlus.
Apple should buy Nintendo.
I should buy some pants.
The future's already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
— William Gibson
Discipline > Motivation
Bloc Party — "This Modern Love" live at Maida Vale from a few days ago.
Fave albums from the 00s:
- The Strokes — Is This It
- Interpol — Turn On the Bright Lights
- Bloc Party — Silent Alarm
- Phoenix — Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
There are 8 chord changes just in the introduction of The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus." Most pop songs today barely have 4 chords.
Two important things:
- I own a drum set. Again.
- My wife is the best.
I find myself back again in a Velvet Underground phase. The Velvet Underground & Nico is on repeat.
Explore everything. Taken with my iPhone 6 while taking off from JFK.
One of the engines on my Delta flight shut down mid-flight. Had to make an emergency landing in Vegas. Firetrucks greeted us on the ground.