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thread from 7 lessons smokers can teach us about getting shit done

how the Tylenol poisoning guy created more packaging waste than has ever been mitigated by consumer recycling efforts

• Permutation City, by Greg Egan
• Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch
• Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks

I also do stuff like eq/tape-saturation/compression/wow-flutter etc. on most of my samples beforehand.

Regarding my regular workflow on the Z I use it like below:

Tr1 - One shot drum kits containing a full kit (not only kick/snare/hi-hat/fx like you ‘should’ use it on the Z)
Tr2 - Sliced Drumloops
Tr3 - Multisampled instrument (synth/bass/piano/guitar etc.)
Tr4 - Multisampled instrument (synth/bass/piano/guitar etc.)
Tr5 - Bass samples
Tr6 - Melodic samples (pads and plucks)
Tr7 - Melodic samples (plucks and short notes)
Tr8 - Melodic samples (pads and long notes)
FX1 - Half wet or full wet delay with LFO on Pan for ping-pong effect
FX2 - Full wet reverb and bit of LFO on Pan or something else as well
Tape - Effecting chosen melodic content (most of the time Track 8) Fine on 100 (+12 semitones) or Fine on 0 (-12 Semitones) Filter on 30 with a bit of resonance and using a Full Dry signal. Tape track is going thru the full Wet reverb FX2 for a subtle and dark shimmer effect giving everything a more spacious feel
Master - Bit of Chorus (never above 30) and Drive on 50. Punch on 50 and Master around 50.

That’s about it! I am thinking about making a sound pack for the Z soon for the ones interested. The pack will contain most of the sounds of the above Z-Files album.

Everyone wants to date someone impressive, but focusing on impressiveness in dating is perfectly useless

Rough and incomplete working notes, to help me think through how to use this site. Intended primarily for my own use. But I will also share this with friends, as grist for conversations about how to best design a website to support creative work.

exceptional internet

This seems very bad.

oh no

Subtitle “How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood”.

but you don’t actually get to fuck broad social approval. you get to fuck some particular person they alone want to fuck you for some specific special reason

TLDR get enough sleep and exercise

Clips from Mayer Hawthorne’s iPhone

clickbaity, but still not ideal

just in time

this aspect was more interesting than the show for me

cool new thing to worry about this week

highlighting new additions in green is cool.

actual ambitious 2030 goals for phone recycling

weird little anaerobic guys

learned a lot from this. On panning/timing/pitch differences, some volume variation ideas using LCR panning.

Humans pumped and displaced so much groundwater in just two decades that we shifted the tilt of Earth’s axis, new research suggests.

cool crossover of sound and electricity

I love this

Great list. Liked the line “Boredom is the stealthy third party in relationships”. And this:

9. Talking about feelings is a trap.
   Everyone who knows me knows this is one hill I will die on. While I’m all about encouraging people to talk about their feelings, I am equally devoted to the idea we should shut up sometimes.

Sharing every little thought and feeling with partners is often born of insecurity, which is understandable, especially if your partner is not giving much (or any) feedback. But no-one can listen intently to all of it. It’s exhausting for them, not to mention a little boring.

Solid first comment, too

On an emotional level, I think it’s better to start from a place of (unconditional!) self-love, and go from there, rather than beating yourself up because you’re not meeting some blogger’s expectations of how you should act.

great writeup! Took it apart with some bits from a watch repair kit. They were metal inside of plastic, but didn’t damage the headphones.