Media Diet

There is a genre of YouTube videos that I cannot get enough of. I think they’re simply called reaction videos, but the premise is that people listen to albums for the first time ever. There are tons of these videos on YouTube. I think it all started with turning the tables for me, though I think they’ve kinda jumped the shark at this point. I just finished watching a bunch of stoners listen to In Rainbows for the first time and was laughing so hard I was crying. Do yourself a favor and watch them listen to the first few tracks. ∞

I have a feeling this post from Dustin Curtis is going to get some attention. I use AI a lot, though maybe not as much as he does when it comes to thinking. I do that less than I used to do. I’ve actually been writing more and doing so with pen and paper, if you can believe that. ∞

The Beth Gibbons Tiny Desk is really something. ∞

I continue to find great things such as this in Bear’s Discovery feed

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Turnstile performing live in Baltimore. Wow. Maybe things will be ok. ∞

I got two new (paper) books this week – Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod, which I began immediately and Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity by Eric Topol.

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Enjoyed Simone Giertz’s latest video where she made a flip clock moon thingie. ∞

I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow. ∞

It’s worth your time to watch Chris Anderson’s interview with Sam Altman at TED. ∞

I finished The Courage To Be Disliked today, sitting outside of gget in Los Feliz. It was one of those books that I had to force myself to finish, which isn’t something I usually do. I did not particularly enjoy the book, though I did enjoy learning about Alderian psychology. I would have rather have learned about it, not through what read like a fake interview (most of the time), but as different kind of book. All that said, I’m certain what I learned will stay with me for a while and I’ll be processing it for some time.

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