Really Calm Tunes
Hi y'all,
- Busy week for me so you all get a quick list of what I've been listening to while needing to focus on things that require some focus. Lots of hours of listening in there, enjoy.
- I love the history of baseball. I learned this week that Ping Bodie - teammate of Babe Ruth on those famous New York Yankees squads - apparently went ten rounds in a spaghetti eating competition with an ostrich. He won, the ostrich passed out - reportedly. Wonder if they covered that in the Ken Burns doc?
- Driving back from Moab, Utah years ago with friends after spending the weekend camping in the desert I asked what everyone wanted to listen to on the four hour plus drive. My former neighbor Kaye piped up from the back seat "ohh I know! I want to listen to something that will make me laugh, and cry, and laugh while crying." It wasn't a serious request but that's how I feel about We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider, so I threw on the audiobook and it powered our trip east back over the Rockies. Because I feel this way, and I think others do as well, it's probably the book I've gifted the most often - the guy who wrote "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" tends to stick. So imagine my delight when I learned Tim has a Substack after reading his great typewriter interview with Austin Kleon.
- The first time I distinctly remember laughing because a piece of media as a child was watching the puppeted sitcom Dinosaurs. Actors in life-size puppet suits, plot somewhere between Roseanne and The Flintstones. Revisiting it recently I was pleased to find it holds up as the fever dream I've half remembered all these years. It's a weird one but I'm not sure my childhood self had the worst taste when it came to available television comedies. Enjoyed this backstage footage shot on a handycam of the actor who voices the baby riffing with the cast.
- BugSplat is a bootstrapped independent software business, so I have a soft spot for others of that ilk. The pinnacle of that category in many ways is the team behind Basecamp and Ruby on Rails, 37signals. I recently stumbled on their 37 tenets and, as always, enjoyed the clarity of how they think about their work. Ohh and I liked the web design as well.
Joey
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