[Older people who consider themselves unable to contribute due to physical impairments have decades of life experience and can often offer advice to simplify or streamline the more intense work.]
[Having events where people can help can signal being more active than having meetings where people talk, and will attract doers.]
[Find shared language by replacing ’true statements’ with words that convey the emotional experience around your solution.]
[Finding ways to solve multiple issues simultaneously helps tell a stronger story than a list of bug fixes or closed issues: try to holistically answer ‘what actually happened?’]
[People expect the same project execution from a single-person as with a company without the ’traffic and acquisition’ money that often finances such development.]
[Businesses who commercialize other open source projects save the cost of developing them, whereas authors who try to commercialize their own projects will be out competed by any entity with more resources.]
[Types of books you might want to read: 1. a religious text (other than your own if you have one); 2. the perspective of any subculture; 3. making the monster human; 4. a political ideology; 5. your childhood hero or strongest memory memory; 6. the hero of your enemy; 7. favourable about someone you don’t like; 8. critical of war; 9. critical of your heroes; 10. about ancient or indigenous peoples (if they were oral, imagine what might have gotten lost by writing); 11. a distopia; 12. about a character you can’t relate to at all.]
Literature exposes you to things you wouldn’t experience in real life.
[Revolutions inspired by Catholic church forbidding intra-family marriage gave rise to cities, universities, guilds as ways for people related by blood to meet eachother.]
[Disagree without getting them defensive with phrases like “I see it differently”, “I have a different way of getting there”, and “I lean towards the opposite”.]
[Being uncertain and curious is a more interesting place for me than knowing what I’m doing.]
[More important than recognizing the name or function of the notes played, I have an awareness of their emotional properties and how they will pull the listener into specific spaces.]
[It’s popular and valid to recreate and enjoy something you heard before; try to be clear when you want that versus something new.]
[Rather than have a disciplined practice regime, I find myself in specific and tsrgeted moments of deep exploration.]
[One of the best gifts you can give to an audience is to fumble, because it’s an invitation for them to join you at the edge of your own exploration where mist of the interesting stuff is. Music isn’t really that serious.]
[Turn orange peels into an insect repellent for your body or plants by boiling and cooling, then strain the liquid into a spray bottle.]
[Or peel the orange part of the peel, rinse with cold water, blend, then mix with a teaspoon of baking soda and water into a paste for a natural teeth whitener you can brush with weekly.]