What I Am Thinking pt.1
Someone asked me the other day what I was thinking about at the moment and this was the answer. The role of Minimalism amongst young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Bikram Yoga postures The process of making single-drip coffee Classic drum albums Neuroethics Marion Cotillard Micro-credit systems and Kiva If Benjamin Franklin was a royalist OEM contracts […]
The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
By far my favourite book of 2010 was Tim Ferriss’ New York Times bestseller ‘The 4 Hour Work Week’ (affiliate link). Although all the attention about the book has been in relation to its chapters on outsourcing and creating an automated income, I personally feel it is fundamentally about personal and financial freedom. It tries […]
What Father’s Day means to me.
So today is Father’s Day and I wanted to write about the dynamic for son’s that work with their dad’s. I manage my father’s musical career so we usually speak on the phone every day and our conversations can cover everything from tour routing and decisions about offers from promoters to tunes he’s considering playing […]
A night with Woody Allen
I’ve been in and around the music business all my life so it’s difficult for me to get lost in the emotions created by an album or concert without thinking about the mechanics of how it was produced. Movies are different for me. I’ve never been involved in the movie business and have little interest in how they are made so it’s easy to become immersed in the feelings of watching a film and allow the director to take you on an emotional journey.
A death in the family
You probably know how it feels. That feeling in your gut when you lose someone close to you. The sadness, the tears, those little moments when you catch yourself wondering how he or she is, only to remember that they have passed on. Depending on your beliefs you tell yourself that they have gone to heaven, passed into the next life or simply ceased to be.