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Niece looks out the window and notices it’s raining. Niece: “Oh, it’s raining. My research was off.” Me: “Research? What research?” Niece: “I did research this morning to see if it was going to rain.” Me: “How did you do your research?” Niece, in the most matter of fact tone possible: “I asked Siri.” 🫠

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Niece looks out the window and notices it’s raining.

Niece: “Oh, it’s raining. My research was off.”

Me: “Research? What research?”

Niece: “I did research this morning to see if it was going to rain.”

Me: “How did you do your research?”

Niece, in the most matter of fact tone possible: “I asked Siri.”

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TFW…

…you’re listening to someone make baseless claims.

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TFW…

…you’re listening to someone make baseless claims.

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Things we’re currently being gaslit about: Covid, Climate, Congo, Fascism, Genocide, Gun Violence, Palestine, Racism…more. It’s really happening. And it’s being denied. You’re not crazy.

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If you’re feeling down, stuck, behind in life, and not where you want to be…

If you’re struggling in silence, trying to figure it out, feeling alone…

This song is for you!

https://youtu.be/bEJN7opj-QE?si=Ut3YvWCVNqnyjAZf

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WHAT THE MUSIC YOU LOVE SAYS ABOUT YOU

Finished reading "This Is What It Sounds Like" by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas. This book is a musical and neuroscientific journey into what music you like and why you like it.

Here are my takeaways

Rogers' main premise is this: Each of us has our own unique "listener profile".

(for years I intuitively came to the same idea, and called it a "musical fingerprint")

Your listener profile is the reason you love certain music. It's directly linked to your "YOUness".

Who you are as a person is greatly influenced by the music you like. And vice versa.

Your listener profile is composed of seven musical dimensions:

Aesthetic dimensions · authenticity (it feels true or real) · realism (what does your mind see? Abstract or Realistic?) · novelty (familiar sounding vs novel)

Musical dimensions · melody (the shape of the music) · lyrics (the words in a song mean something to you) · rhythm (how your body respond to the beat) · timbre (what the song "tastes" like)

For each musical dimension there is a sweet spot that resonates with you.

"The sweet spots on your profile were formed through biology, experience, and happenstance. Your random neural wiring, your exposure to musical culture in the time and place you grew up, and the sheer chance of hearing *this* record and not *that* record at crucial moments in your life all shaped the kind of listener you are and influence the kind of music you can fall in love with."

Just as there is love at first sight, there's love at first listen.

You love certain songs because they hit those seven sweet spots, and you feel a powerful and instant attraction.

When you experience love at first sight or love at first listen, it's beyond liking. It's wanting. And you need more of that person or that song in your life.

"Be it records or romantic partners, we fall in love with the ones who make us feel like our best and truest self."

"It is a simple fact of both romantic courtship and record production that our very best efforts will not please everyone." - Susan Rogers

Some music is made and felt "below the neck". It is an embodied experience that we don't think about.

Some music is made and felt "above the neck". It is cerebral and methodical.

Each can sound authentic to us.

There's a part of your brain that contains your sense of Self. One of the best ways to tap into this Self is by listening to music that resonates with the sweet spots on your listener profile.

The implication is that if you want to know yourself better, listen to your music.

Listening to music is a special form of daydreaming. When you listen to the music you love, you're transporting yourself to your favorite places and emotions. You're traveling to the core of who you are.

Music helps us know others. Their music preferences point to who they are.

Music has the power to unite us. It can help us understand each other, and it's a way for us to see each other.

When you share your music, you share a part of yourself. Including when you share your guilty pleasure songs (perhaps especially then).

Like your height or sexual orientation, your musical taste isn't a choice. It just is.

When you're honest with yourself about who you are, as well as what music you like (or don't like), then you'll be open to the expression of you.

Music is so personal, no one's musical taste is superior to another's.

Most people listen to music passively, in the background while they're doing something else.

There's so much more in this book. Stories about artists like Prince and how they make music.

Rogers explains how a record producer thinks and listens and works with an artist to make a record.

Best book I've read so far this year!

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ACROSS PIXELS

Beyond pixels on the screen,

There’s a person like you and me.

With hopes and dreams and fears and doubts,

Who just wants to be sought out.

With open arms be embraced; And hear the words: “I love you dear friend”.

Though strangers we may be,

We can witness each other’s humanity.

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Next level animation with rocking music. What’s not to love?

Arrangement & production by: Jonathan Young

Animation & Artwork by: @voltanimation

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What “red dots” are you chasing?

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One of the best compliments you can give to a neurodivergent person.

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Beautiful Hair

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Love the creative use of trees in these murals!

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This curiously delightful website tells a story in a well designed way. Love it!

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Whenever there’s a wave of progress, there’s also an undercurrent of opposition.

But undercurrents will never overcome waves.

Keep making waves!

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Brené Brown on the relationship between belonging and solitude:

“Your level of true belonging can never be greater than your willingness to be brave and stand by yourself.”

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If poetry and prose are the feast for hearts and minds, typeface and font are the tableware on which the feast is served.

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My niece says “sometimes people do mistakes”.

It’s so true! We DO mistakes. Not make them.

“Making mistakes” implies living with what you made and having to “unmake” it before you can move on.

“Doing mistakes” is a blip. A reference point. Something we can continually update.