Internet Todo List for Enthusiastic Thinkers, S1E7
This week is all “you might have missed it”, some selections from my weblog’s archives. For new friends to discover and old friends to reminisce.
You can click a link on Amazon and make a TV appear on your doorstep the next day. This is just one of the aspects of Amazon Prime that motivated me to write four odes to said service.
“This fully functioning domicile”, on home ownership, economic specialization, and the guilt of a grown man who can’t fix many things.
I don’t often write on politics. When I do, it’s usually to blow off some steam and get a general affliction off my back. Unfortunately, the political empathy situation has not improved much since I wrote about it. Worth considering as we head gaze down the maw of the coming US presidential election.
I almost always listen to music while I’m working. Matching music to my mood and task is critical. “The ear is connected to the brain”, on how I used Pandora and Rdio to put me in the proper state of mind for the current task, is a point-in-time glimpse at how I look at music and its connection to doing work.
“How to listen to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring”, on putting yourself in a sufficiently non-modern mindset so that a revolutionary piece of music sounds revolutionary.
That's all for this week!
Your pal,
Adam Keys
(Ed. Those who didn't collect enough worthwhile links last week have been sacked.)