Category: Miscellaneous
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Back in 2022, Substack writer Heath Racela got to meet legendary musician Ben Folds. Apparently, Folds holds master classes now, this one being in Concord, MA. The key take away that Heath mentioned in his write-up: “embrace the messiness of learning” Other keys: songs as a three-act story, “balance between the liberal and the practical”…
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In an email from Stacked Marketer from October 2022, one of many newsletters I’ve been subscribed to over the past year… Saw this interesting bit about “Zero Drafts,” but the original source is a Twitter thread (yuck). Originally I just did a copy/paste job of the entire section of the email, but here are the…
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A 100-year-old railroad dining car sandwich bag? A 100-year-old Halloween napkin? Again, artifacts of history, who cares if they were used, right? They do turn up if you know where to look, and they were intended for the trash. Who knows why they survived, but let’s be glad that they did, and not just to…
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This Auction Professor video about rubber duck bath toys got the Rubber Ducky song from Sesame Street stuck in my head. You know, “Rubber ducky, you’re the one who makes bath time so much fun. Oh rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you, doo doo dee doo.” Apparently, there are collectors of these shameless marketing…