by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
What if you took EVERY DJ break Howard Hesseman ever made,
as Dr. Johnny Fever (WKRP in Cincinnati), and just …followed his lead? Would it be possible to construct a three hour radio show, with Fever as host? …It was, in fact! And it sounded great, because most of the musical choices were made by The Doctor, himself.
My current soundtrack. This is fantastic!
James Shelley asks, What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?
To put any thoughtful labour into crafting words online today is to watch them get sucked up, repurposed, and often monetized by someone else. It feels a bit like a digital wasteland; overrun with pirates, replete with armies of robots regurgitating everything into a gooey cocktail of digital sludge.
Much food for thought.
Mr. Wade has what you need to become a serious reader.
TL;DR version? Make the time for it and don’t skip the classics.
A Blind Teacher Using Echolocation to Navigate the World
Echo is a fascinating and poignant short film about Daniel Kish, a blind man who uses echolocation to move about in the world and teaches others how to do the same. Using clicks, he and his students can go on hikes, ride bikes, and skateboard down the sidewalk.
Amazing. And, yep, I teared up at the end.
A unified theory of fucks | A Working Library
The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have.
This has been making the rounds and rightfully so, it’s wonderful. Pairs well with my own take on the subject from 2014: The Fucks and How We Give Them (A Manifesto)
49 Lessons from 37 Years of Newsletter Publishing
My friend CJ Chilvers has a new book out. He has 37 years of newsletter publishing experience under his belt — both personal and professional for companies you know. Well worth the $5.00 if you have any interest in this stuff at all.
a note on plagiarism – The Homebound Symphony
Which makes me wonder whether some of the plagiarism (or “duplicative language”) we’re now seeing so much of is a result of one small habit of digital writing: pasting wrongly.
Finally a reasoned take on the whole affair that is likely much closer to the truth but/and reveals something many of us writers outside of academia are guilty of.
(the “but/and” is duplicative language I’ve, um, adopted from Robin Sloan)
A Productive Conversation: PM Talks S1E1: (Mostly) Paper Planners on Apple Podcasts
Wanna hear me and Mike Vardy go full nerd mode on Paper Planners for an hour or so? Of course you do.
PM Talks is a new series on Mike Vardy’s long running podcast where Mike and I go deep on our mutual passions.
Get Ready | Apple Vision Pro – YouTube
They had me at DEVO.