Every car I get (currently have an Hyundai Elantra GT), I end up with the back seats down 75% of the time, and it just looks crappy. If the default mode was back-seats-down, with no big seams or gaps or unlevel parts, I'd be in heaven.

I knew I'd pay for recommending a paid course but it's really great and the price is a steal given that Berklee Online courses are around $1500 and private lessons w someone of this teacher's calibre might be $100/hr. I'm not affiliated w the teacher/college at all other than being a student.

https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/

This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them.

I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rtdR9WkOOY

And his early synth-y stuff is just so hip. Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978) is some badass stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo7n6CMCcE

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As I think about acts of integrity and grace, I realise that there is nothing in my knowledge to compare with Frege’s dedication to truth. His entire life’s work was on the verge of completion, much of his work had been ignored to the benefit of men infinitely less capable, his second volume was about to be published, and upon finding that his fundamental assumption was in error, he responded with intellectual pleasure clearly submerging any feelings of personal disappointment. It was almost superhuman and a telling indication of that of which men are capable if their dedication is to creative work and knowledge instead of cruder efforts to dominate and be known. (Quoted in van Heijenoort (1967), 127)

The guy cowrote Principia Mathematica AND won the Nobel prize in literature. He pretty much destroyed Frege's life's work in a witty little personal letter that could've fit on a napkin. He's one of those rare thinkers that did so much that if he only did a tenth of what he actually did he'd still be considered great.

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I am addicted to the game and get pissed at myself if I don't get to the top scoring tier every day.

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As an example of something that is very systematic (easy to put in an app), a rootless C maj 7 is equivalent to an E min 7. A rootless C min 7 is equivalent to an Eb maj 7. etc.

It is a pretty tough leap to learn rootless jazz piano comping when almost everything out there (except for the old-school dead tree books) only ever shows rooted voicings.

  Entering the Kingdom
  by Mary Oliver
  
  The crows see me.   
  They stretch their glossy necks      
  In the tallest branches    
  Of green trees. I am      
  Possibly dangerous, I am    
  Entering the kingdom.
  
  The dream of my life   
  Is to lie down by a slow river    
  And stare at the light in the trees–      
  To learn something by being nothing    
  A little while but the rich    
  Lens of attention.
  
  But the crows puff their feathers and cry   
  Between me and the sun,    
  And I should go now.      
  They know me for what I am.    
  No dreamer,      
  No eater of leaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qL_hkYEf1M

"A means something by x" is equivalent to "A intended the utterance of x to produce some effect in an audience by means of the recognition of this intention".

It may seem less than clear taken out of context, but there is a wonderful argument working toward the definition and once he finally presents it, it's a bit of a mic drop moment.

Also, he is one of the few philosophers whose work proved to be foundational in linguistics. Any book/course in pragmatics will talk about Grice's work on implicature and background knowledge.