📖 What I’m Reading:

​Family Fun Pack – People’s Policy Project​

• A proposal to, inter alia, fix childcare.

​Scottie Scheffler’s take on success in golf: ‘What’s the point?’ – ESPN​

• “Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more.”

​My Recent Experience with “Vibe Coding” – Jack Raines​

• The right way to use AI.

☝️ Word of the Month:

sibilant (adj) SIB-uh-luhnt

Making or characterized by a hissing sound; sounded with a hissing effect, for example, s, sh.

From Latin sibilare (to hiss, whistle), of imitative origin.

“Our test recordings were free of noticeable fuzz and generally crisp without being sibilant.”

🎵 Jams of the Month:

The Undeniable Swag of Justin Bieber’s New Album

• ​DAISIES (Spotify). Could be a John Mayer tune.
• ​FIRST PLACE (Spotify). Could be a Backstreet Boys tune.
• ​WALKING AWAY (Spotify). Basically a country/blues anthem. I could see Chris Stapleton covering this.

The Nasal Nefariousness of Clipse’s New Album

• ​So Be It (Spotify). Verse at 0:47 is an all timer.
• ​F.I.C.O. (Spotify). 10/10 beat.

Assorted Jams

• ​Assumptions – Sam Gellaitry (Spotify). Makes you move.
• ​Easy Goodbye – Emma Louise, Flume (Spotify). Groove and pocket. I don’t dig all of Flume’s stuff, but he’s 1/1. Nobody else like him.
• ​POP IT – Rich The Kid, Key Glock (Spotify). Ignorant and fun.
• ​In the Name of the Father – PRESIDENT (Spotify) (YouTube). A mysterious metal band enters the Sleep Token arena scene.
• ​DABSTEP (SoundCloud). I made this. It’s disgusting but it was fun to make.

💬 Quote of the Month:

“There was no paradise from which we fell, and there is no utopia we can achieve. Just a long series of problems, solutions, new problems, and new solutions. Nostalgia and utopianism set us up to be perennially dissatisfied, and distract us from the work of incremental progress.”

-Dr. Alan Levinovitz

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pps: makes you think (Instagram)

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