Journal

51 entries for 2022

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Let’s talk about what they’re going after next….

[Don’t throw your hands up just because it’s not a permanent solution: we’re in for a long fight.]

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Prefer practices to rules.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Take decisions and write them down.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

[It’s hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

[The ‘diamond model’ describes expanding to generate lots of ideas without judgement, followed by the convergence towards making choices about what is pertinent.’]

Information wants to be free but rent isn’t.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

[I don’t apologize.]

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

If you’re feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.

Saturday, February 26, 2022

FAQs – All the Music LLC

[We generated and wrote to disk all mathematically possible melodies, then dedicated them to the public domain.]

[To become so centered that anyone coming to you with an opinion simply forgets. You can kill Jesus or Buddha but not push them.]

[Creativity comes easily to those who are loose and natural. Doing anything becomes a creative phenomenon. Touching something turns it into art, saying something into poetry. Even walking is creating a rhythm. Not because of obsession: simply being filled with energy makes you create.]

Much happens but nobody is the doer.

Part of Tantra: The Supreme Understanding.

Friday, February 25, 2022

[A giver knows they have given and would like you to recognize it by giving them a receipt saying “Yes, you have given me”, thanking them, feeling grateful to them. This is not a gift but a bargain, where something is expected in return. They give to get.]

[Birds don’t need any religion.]

Part of Tantra: The Supreme Understanding.

Friday, February 18, 2022

Let’s talk about why countries don’t follow the manual….

[It’s not the side who can dish out the most that wins, but the side who can take the most.]

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Creating Community Wherever You Go with Digital Nomad Alex Salinsky

[A couple of people are having dinner at this place (which isn’t true the first few times, but later on it is), would you like to join us?]

[Give people something to say yes to; they may even be relieved if they were looking to have plans for the evening.]

The 2nd Winter Moon Cycle: Thoughts on Covid-19, Vaccination, VAERS, and Related Topics

[What kills people from COVID is the overreaction of their immune system to a pathogen.]

[A ‘strong’ immune system is bad language.]

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Composition as a way to remember musical ideas by putting them in mental structures.

Monday, February 14, 2022

[Don’t ask what’s their favourite X or most important Y.]

I love you today.

[The accountant is accountable and therefore can get emotional about numbers not lining up.]

Sunday, February 13, 2022

How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit

He is soft-spoken, even shy. As a boy, he once wrote, “I was timid and extravagant.” He can seem suspiciously modest for a world-famous musician. Many of his contemporaries are technically superior, he’ll say. “But there is this more mysterious aspect” to his talent, he told me: “The atmosphere that comes with my voice.” He described it as “my presence, my personality,” which echoed an old song of his, called “Minha Voz, Minha Vida,” or “My Voice, My Life.” His liquid tenor, melodic and trance-like, is one of the most distinctive voices in music. Away from the microphone, he listens intently, and goes into languorous digressions full of references to books and films.

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

You remove the clothes of your soul when traveling.