Show Notes
- Watch George present the fabled Trough of Despair presentation and see his inability to draw a straight line
- Don’t be a George, online drawing classes available here
- The TEFL test, also known as the Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and definitely never known as the Toblerone test
- Schadenfreude is more than a complex emotion, it’s also a book
- “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” - Parkinson's law
- Part 3 of Dan’s Remote Musician’s Handbook, which was sadly overlooked last week, all about subscription revenues
- Maddie’s in Marblehead, Massachusetts, aka the perfect bar
- A list of other great places that George will never go to, but Dan and Carly would
- Most definitely a song
- George’s talk for Consensus 2020 (skip ahead to the 48:00 mark)
- Mark Brendanawicz’s hairstyle coveted, but not achieved, by George’s son
- Reply All’s Brian vs Brian episode about the Christmas song that ended up in a grocery store and The Case of the Missing Hit
- George’s no more free online shows plea which led him to Joe Pug which led to his latest Forbes piece, Musicians Making It Work During COVID-19
- Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, explaining Bitcoin to J.K. Rowling
Three Things
Carly
- Writing: A piece about a new form of social responsibility for sex tech companies that you can read on Future of Sex
- Reading: A great essay on the link between phrenology (which she pronounced correctly) as a pseudoscience to today’s AI tools to predict criminality, via the Pocket App and Firefox plugin
- Listening: I Said No Gifts!, a lighthearted podcast with many rules, all of them delightful
George
- Using: Mini Moleskines, which apparently nobody knows how to pronounce, for condensed to-do lists
- Reading: Club MacStories with weekly app recommendations, tutorials, shortcuts and other tips, expertly curated by Federico Viticci
- Eating: Old Bay Seasoning and feeling nostalgic while cooking crab cakes. You’ll have to listen to the episode for George’s history of the brand, as we could not condense it to a few sentences here
Dan
- Using: The iPad Magic Keyboard, which was not a frivolous purchase and has definitely been worth the cost of admission. “There’s nothing you can’t do!”
- Listening: Re-discovered the song Argenta by The 4 of Us, a song so specific he was inspired to research it and uncovered its historic background, which again you’ll have to listen
- Watching: Kevin James of Paul Blart: Mall Cop (jinx!) in his new YouTube Sound Guy series where he stars as, you guessed it, the sound guy in iconic movie scenes like Star Wars and The Notebook
