Brad Barrish

I was looking through my photos. I know I have at least a couple of Dave and I from SXSW. Apple Photos couldn’t find any though.

I’m still processing that we lost Dave Allen. I really liked Dave a lot and I know I wasn’t alone. He was such a cool and kind person who I’d known personally since the early aughts. I think we might have met for the first time when I was at Topspin, but he’s a legend whose music I enjoyed so much. We would grab coffee or a meal when we visited one another’s home towns. He cared deeply about music artists getting paid and was very much in the mix in the early days of streaming, fighting to make sure things were “artist friendly”.

Last October I was out with my friend Parker, seeing Hania Rani perform at The Masonic Lodge at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Somehow Dave came up and I learned that Dave had been suffering from early-onset dementia of some kind, which explained why he hadn’t responded to texts. So much of his brilliant mind was gone and now his entire physical being is gone. While we have his music, I will miss him as a person. He made a dent. He left a mark.

Rest in power, Dave.

Middle-aged man trading cards are the wholesome thing I needed to read about today. The Internet still delivers every once in a while.

I’m really enjoying Marta Saraiva’s art. (via Dense Discovery, which is one of a few emails I actually look forward to receiving)

Mark and I caught up on Friday and as usual there was a lot of link sharing and discussion of the world. He shared this gem of a post from ye olde days of 2010.

Matt Webb is on People & Blogs today. It is, of course, a wonderful, link-filled interview.

I did one about a year ago.

AI is getting very good at fighting health insurance denials. What do you have to lose?