Making Music

Every Wednesday I share five things I liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman's simple formula for learning anything. (If you haven't read it, I highly recommend his book "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman". It's one of my favourite books. He was a fascinating, brilliant and hilarious guy.)

2. Our brains are weird and have the unfortunate habit of playing tricks on us. This is a particular problem when it comes to being unbiased and impartial. Our brains are great at highlighting evidence that confirms our beliefs whilst ignoring the evidence that contradicts it. This is called confirmation bias — How to get people to overcome their bias

3. This is such a clever idea! "Rogue One editor Colin Goudie shares how he made a full-length story reel for director Gareth Edwards from similar scenes from 100s of other movies so that Edwards could work out the pacing for the action and dialogue." — Rogue One’s unique storyboard, remixed from 100s of films

4. I'm sharing this for no other reason than it made me smile. Even though this Useless Box is clearly useless, part of me wants one...

5. One of my favourite musical discoveries of 2016 — Nocturne 4 by Ben Lukas Boysen

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Bailey the dog

Every Wednesday I share five things I liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Are we characters in a simulation? I've shared an article on this before, but this one uses cartoons to help explain the argument. Which obviously makes it better!
    
2. ROLI has just announced the Lightpad Block (a cool little musical instrument which I'm looking forward to getting my hands on). They are the company behind the equally cool, but way more expensive, Seaboard. Great to see a company making new instruments rather than just rehashing old ones.
    
3. The genius that is Seth Godin, strikes again — The confusion about enough
    
4. And a great post by one of my other favourite thinkers, Derek Sivers — Tilting my mirror (motivation is delicate)
    
5. Thinking of learning a new language in 2017? This might just help you learn it a little faster! I'll definitely be giving it a try in my efforts to learn German.

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What he says (Sent from my iPhone)

Every Wednesday I share five things I liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s five things…

1. A conversation with Alexander Shelley (conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa) on the architecture of music and the importance of art and culture to society. It's one of the best things I've listened to this year.
    
2. A learning hack backed by science? Yes please! — The Secret to Better Learning That Most People Don’t Know.
    
3. A great post on originality by Austin Kleon titled Steal Old Stuff — "When any art form or medium becomes primarily about people imitating the dominant form, we get stifling art. If you look at all of the great filmmakers, they’re all ripping someone off but it was someone 50 years ago."
    
4. A very useful cognitive bias cheat sheet (make sure you check out the 'diagrammatic poster' at the bottom of the post) — Because thinking is hard.
    
5. If you didn't know it already, Elon Musk and his company SpaceX are awesome. Last week they announced their plans for Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species. They seem to be very serious when they say they want to send humans to Mars. Redefines what it means to be ambitious!

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