Russell Davies

Notes and links - October 26th

This is as good as everyone says it is: "Be the one who convenes. Everyone is tired. Everyone secretly wants someone else to ring the bell. Host the cheap thing. Name the time and end. Say, “door is soft; leave when you must.” Put crisps in a bowl. Friendship

Slop that slaps

I've done a stupid project that combines a few random thoughts: 1. I like making fake media. Not as in false content, but as in prototyping media types. Imagining what future media forms might be like and then trying to build them. That's why I made

Nerdwriter on two ways to film the same scene

Biologists on trade-offs

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred. — C. Brandon Ogbunu (@cbo.bsky.social) 2025-07-27T00:21:15.559Z

The only good newsletter

Tamara Shopsin's The Voyeur is absolutely the best newsletter and the most compelling current argument for micropayments.

Don Hall on Editing

From Essays After Eighty The greatest pleasure in writing is rewriting. My early drafts are always wretched. At first a general verb like “move” is qualified by the adverb “quickly.” After sixty tries I come up with a particular, possibly witty verb and drop the adverb. Originally I wrote “poetry

Yamamoto on starting

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” Yohji Yamamoto

Alan Alda on speaking in threes

Ozzy Moysey on aiming and missing

@gondwanarecords "You aim for something, you miss, then you find something else" #gondwanarecords #podcast #ancientinfinityorchestra #musician #ensemble #jazz ♬ original sound - Gondwana Records - Gondwana Records "You aim for something, you miss, then you find something else"

Notes - 19th of October

Excellent idea: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPlnQtmjMY2 "When Alexa Colas realized she needed more music in her life, she found a simple solution.⁠ She turned her living room into a record store. And a listening room. And a performance space. And the set of a @PhillyCAM TV show.

Jason Swet on designing spaces

@jason_swet 3 tips for art directing spaces: Whether it’s a pop-up, longterm retail design or IRL marketing activation, I find these are 3 things I have to consistently remind myself of. Highlights from the Post Malone designed @Raising Cane's in Midvale Utah And the @LONELY GHOST