RIFFS: Anderson .Paak’s name has a dot. But why? The dot stands for detail. It’s a reminder to himself to pay attention to detail, because “people take you as seriously as you take yourself.” Oftentimes we’re in such a hurry to develop our badassery that we forget it’s the sum of paying attention to thousands […]
Riff Recs #6
Riffs Recs Friends of friends The Main Squeeze covered Pink Floyd’s Have A Cigar. And I don’t want to be hyperbolic here, but: Guitarist Max Newman plays maybe the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard. If you’re pressed for time, skip ahead to where it starts at 3:26. It’s five minutes well spent. Charts I […]
Riff Recs #5
Riffs Recs I’ve really been digging on Jay Leonard J’s YouTube channel. He’s a great player, and this one in particular resonated with me: My Advice For Mastering Your Instrument In it, he touches on these six ideas: 1. Play With The Recording We tend to play super fast for the easier bits, but then […]
Riff Recs #4
Hey Y’all, Hope you’re staying warm this week. We got lucky and left Austin just before the storm hit. Here’s this week’s Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts. ——— Riffs: ——— Recs: In this vid, Mary Spender asks Tomo Fujita, “what do you think people are missing when teaching themselves?” His answers: “mumbling” not recording themselves […]
Riff Recs #3
Hey Y’all! It’s Wednesday, which means… Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts Riffs: ——— Recs: Keep The Fun was an attempt to articulate something I couldn’t quite perceive. I was blindly groping towards an idea that was just outside my reach. But then my friend Nicholas sent me an amazing article, and the cartoon lightbulb above my […]
Riff Recs #2
Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts Riffs: Building A Second Brain is the most buzzed-about course on the internet. Its key idea is PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. If you don’t have clarity on the difference between Projects and Areas, productivity will always be an uphill battle. “Fitness” is an Area. “Run a 5k” is a […]
Riff Recs #1
Hey Y’all! I don’t know about you, but I can’t keep up with the flood of books, podcasts, videos, & articles that get recommended in the newsletters I subscribe to. They linger in my inbox & make me feel kinda guilty. You seem more interested in the synthesis of what I’m consuming than you are […]