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Nicholas Wilton on contrast in art

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ4g__Cpv_0

Unmonetisable me

The other week I sent this to premium subscribers to 10andahalf cafes... hello You are 1 of 10 people who’ve kindly signed up for the premium version of this newsletter. That means you’ve paid either £3 or £6 so far, which is very generous of you. And it’

Notes and links - 8th February

"Where we are with agentic AI feels a lot like the cloud computing boom of 20 years ago. Marketed on claims of efficiency and flexibility, its big innovation was to remove friction between a company’s operating expenses and revenue lines of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Whereas project purchasing

David Lynch on intuition

@contemporary.blueprint Intuition Is the Artist’s Compass // David Lynch 🟠 Intuition isn’t instinct—it’s knowing without needing to explain. 🟠 It’s the overlap of feeling and thinking, a quiet inner signal. 🟠 For artists and innovators alike, it’s your closest ally. The most powerful creative decisions don’t

Going inconvenient

I've noticed on the socials that people are talking about 'going analogue'. And among other things that means using a digital camera and an iPod. So, really it means 'going inconvenient' or 'going non-phone'. Which is fine. Those are valid things to

Just start

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIsqV9KoFm4/?hl=en

Morning talking

I've started a new stupid project. Doing Morning Pages into my phone, with my mouth and my face. So not Morning Pages at all, really. But, still, it might be interesting.

On pressing the space bar for the cabinet

I told a GDS story which contains some advice about presenting.

Expedient exaggeration and Gell-Mann amnesia

New WIP episode out in sound and vision

The London Review of TikToks

What a brilliant analogy: @jonawils Why Manchester United are like Swedish cows in springtime Why do Premier League teams dominate at this stage of the Champions League but rarely win it? The latest Libero: https://pod.fo/e/381598 #footballtiktok #manchesterunited #arsenalfc #championsleague ♬ original sound - Jonathan Wilson - Jonathan

Dolled up

Music for the slow

Another ambient mix, with an accompanying slow motion video out of the window of The Shepherdess Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/undermanager/music-for-the-slow/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZeMI-84x7FA

Fall in love with a tree

Presentation Club 4: we might just chat

Presentation Club 4 is coming up next week. We have a few confirmed attendees but no speaker yet. Fancy joining us and practising a presentation? I'm going to plough on anyway. That's how you get these things to work, just keep turning up. If there'

Short audio

I'm still doing Unoffice Hours, because they continue to be a delight. Yesterday's instalment was a fantastic chat about Short Podcasts with James King. He is one of the few listeners to 4764 and make his own short collagey podcast at Audiolog. He's built

Hello Telly

Vaporwave and ambient on minidisc, cassette and Philip Glass Buddha Machine

I have a lot of miscellaneous music on a lot of miscellaneous formats. I thought I'd see if I could mix it together. It was going well until my phone ran out of memory. Still, there's about 22 minutes of interesting stuff. Specifically: Wichita LimeWire -

Bluey, Starlings, Exercises and tiny perfect things - recommendations from Ella Fitzsimmons

As part of my ongoing efforts to get you to buy a ticket for Interesting I've recorded another chat with a former speaker - the magnificent Ella Fitzsimmons. You will enjoy this, Ella is such an original thinker and engaging talker.