I sometimes wonder why songs get stuck in our heads. In the case of “Bad Ideas”, I think what’s really interesting is how the chord progression in the song (C-B/C-Am-G-F-Em-Dm-G), which highlights the descending diatonic…
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I’ve never really thought about how video game music is composed, but recently, I’ve been learning common chord progressions in jazz/fusion/RnB, and have started noticing them in lots of different places. In the theme from…
Continue Reading “Littleroot Town – Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald”
When I was 11 or 12, I inadvertently bought a pirated version of Pokémon Gold that didn’t have a battery in it, rendering the in-game clock inoperable. After a short couple of decades later, I’ve…
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Dear Friend, I hope things are better in the future than they are right now. I hope that you’re able to look back at this point in time, laugh about how crazy everything was, and…
When we were both 16, my best friend had an early smartphone – one of the first that made use of a stylus. One day, as a group of us were hanging out, he reached…
While waiting out the pandemic, I’ve been working on my improvisation/composition skills. Here’s something I came up with in about an hour.
In 2019, one of my goals was to read 52 books – one for every week. Thankfully, I had many friends with great tastes in short books, so I powered through the year with no…
Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a better way to get the business news that we curate from thousands of sources to our users.
I wrote this while thinking about automation after the demise of my robovac.
This is a piece I wrote about dealing with rejection/rejecting.
