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

1. Marc Maron interviewed drumming legend Steve Jordan on his WTF Podcast. They talk about music, drumming, Steve's background and his collaborations with Keith Richards, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry... I could go on, he's played with pretty much everyone!

2. J.K Rowling on tolerance and free speech.

3. One of many stunning photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno probe and edited by Sean Doran. Being able to see Jupiter in such detail is an amazing thing.

4. A good post on how to get more out of what you read.

5. This week's music recommendation is actually a collaboration between the podcast Song Exploder (one of my favourites) and Google called Inside Music. The experiment lets you explore the different musical layers of a number of songs, recombining them as you see fit. Pretty cool!

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

1. One of my projects this year is learning to code. Learning anything from scratch is hard work, but it feels like I'm starting to make some progress. I've completed three projects in the last couple of weeks: a quote machine, a weather app and a Wikipedia viewer. I'll report back with my fourth project once I've made some progress! If you fancy learning to code, check out freeCodeCamp.
    
2. Having opinions is easy, doing the work to justify holding them is less so: The Work Required To Have An Opinion.
    
3. If you like birds (and high quality photography) you're going to like these: Birds Around the World in 31 Incredible Photos.
    
4. I've been really enjoying the latest series of Dead Ringers. It seems whatever the state of our politics, it never ceases to be a great source of comedy.
    
5. This week's musical recommendation is Moments Descend On My Windowpane by Rafael Anton Irisarri. If you like it, check out his album A Fragile Geography.

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Ipswich By Night

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

1. "If you can learn it, it's a skill. If it's important, but innate, it's a talent." The difference between what is a skill and what is a talent is often lost or confused. As Seth Godin succinctly explains here, there is a difference and it's an important one.
    
2. The idea of being too inspired, isn't one you probably entertain too often. But seeking out inspiration versus actually doing original work is a fine balance. This is a great post on the topic by Jason Fried — "Don’t be influenced too much. Be aware of what’s great, but don’t get other people’s work too deep in your head or you’ll be doing their work, not yours."
    
3. Much to the annoyance of my brother I've watched this several times. — Monty Python’s Argument Sketch performed by two vintage speech synthesizers.
    
4. This year I've really embraced the idea of sharing more of my work and ideas for free (here's one example of that). There are obviously pros and cons associate with this, but for me, I think the upsides far outweigh the downsides. Using photography as an example, these articles both make a great case for sharing more, rather than less.
    
5. Earlier this week I finished reading Sam Harris' book Free Will. It's a mind blowing book and I highly recommend it. The audiobook read by Sam is particularly good.

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