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Jan 18, 2022Liked by David Papandrew

Loved both those stories and how they played into each other. I feel like I'm sad to say that I am totally not the best at just repeating the basics. Case in point is that I'm not that great at tuning still... A good call to sort my life out, or at least my tuning.

I tried Refind and love it but also suffer from overwhelm of too much content as it is. I think it's easier knowing that there is an insane amount of amazing content but not having an easy way to find it. Tools like this give me so much FOMO as it become glaringly obvious that you aren't consuming a slice of the brilliant stuff that exists.

(also I barely watch TV but watched a few things over the holidays and it feels like it's becoming too enjoyable, so many great books also being adapted and made easier for people to enjoy. I guess there is always a business in making things easy for people..)

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The basics are hard. Even though I call out the band in the story above, I certainly have my own shortcomings in this area too. Scales are a fundamental thing we’re told to practice ad nauseum. I hate scales. I rarely play them. I’m probably a poorer musician for it and I know it. It’s a basic thing that I should do but don’t. I’m guessing we all have achilles heels in the area of fundamentals.

I enjoy Refind but agree that the daily curated emails are too much. I think once a week is my sweet spot for receiving info from outside newsletters.

Abundance is a challenge! Filtering that abundance another challenge. It’s a ripe topic for exploration and business opportunities (ahem…Reason podcast app…) ;-)

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Yea totally on music and scales, I default to same things too much unless i am practicing a lot and go into dedicated improvement territory. Having friends around you doing different stuff I find is really motivating.

And yes Reason to help filter quality is something we want to achieve although doing it completely right is tricky and people have different preferences I guess. Hmmm

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