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I stumbled upon Pritesh Walia completely by chance.

Structure and form is one mode; free flow is another.

It is nice to start anew because computer OSes accumulate cruft.

I’m using an iPhone, a Blackmagic Camera app, and a Yeti microphone, all combined into a single ProRes file at 24fps with manual audio gain.

Murakami hit the nail on its head.

Work life has stabilized.

Early mornings have a special gift for me.

I cannot get enough of these tunes recently: Blues in the Night (Dinah Washington), See See Rider (Ernestine Anderson), T’Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness (Dinah Washington), and You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to (Helen Merrill).

Newspeak is deliberately obscure language designed to confuse or deceive.

Most people don’t understand how computers work or know how to harness computing to solve problems, which limits their personal use.

My guitar recording philosophy has evolved toward minimal, purposeful gear: tone comes from the fingers, pick, guitar, and amp, while digital effects complement rather than replace the core sound.

Honne and tatemae aren’t simply truth versus lie.

The Unix philosophy holds that a program should do one thing well, stay simple, and avoid unnecessary complexity.

Murakami’s latest novel, “The Tale of Kaho,” was released on July 3, 2026, by Shichosha.

We discovered Guillaume Poncelet on YouTube, totally randomly.

An early morning walk down Chesterfield Avenue, in the chilled air and along the uncrowded sidewalk, helped me find a signal in the everyday noise.

I took a brief walk this morning, on our 4th wedding anniversary, also the first day of my vacation, a period I like to call retirement rehearsal.

I have thought about and diagnosed the mechanisms of weight gain and found that they are largely conditioned loops and the continuation of eating past satisfaction.

Compounding effects have implications that are easy to underestimate; for example, a good habit will compound, thereby improving one’s daily life, sustaining itself as an internal cycle.

Observe the inner stillness of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the great violinists of the 20th century.