Bananas to marvel at

March 7, 2019

Sometimes it’s good just to stare in wonder, jaws agape, at things that are strange and beautiful. I have two of those and a third banana that peels back the...

The seed and the sword

February 28, 2019

“They tried to bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.” I spotted this powerful turn of phrase on a beautiful pin and immediately had to have it. I think it...

Big challenges and making art babies

February 21, 2019

Musical genres by the most popular words in its titles. It’s pure poetry. Blues is “worried mojo howlin' luck reconsider goin' highway messin' mean...

Forgetting, the obvious, forgetting the obvious

February 14, 2019

Obvious insights are super valuable. It seems intuitive that to keep people’s attention and deliver something powerful, you have to have those TED nuggets in...

Food lies, music lies, and literary realism

February 7, 2019

Swingin on the Flippity-Flop. A great story shared by video game writer @MitchDyer: (Click to this tweet if the visual doesn’t come up well in the email...

Bananas about music

January 31, 2019

I’ve come across a ton of music-related bananas recently. Here are the ripest of the bunch. The composers as biscuits. Head on over to this thread by Oxford...

Try the quincunx, it's delicious

January 23, 2019

Without further ado, the quincunx. This tweet from Aitor García Rey sent me off in a spiral of feverish discovery: “Today I learned the layout used to...

Take your brand to work day, revisions, and stockpiling

January 17, 2019

Hi! #Tbt is now on a new provider, Substack rather than Tinyletter. It was surprisingly easy. Not much should have changed. I’m going to try using horizontal...

Coming soon

January 17, 2019

Substack is a platform for email newsletters. The author of this publication will no doubt be publishing their first edition soon. In the meantime, you can...