Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053397

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

It also allows you to make more mistakes, which can lead to surprising directions.

And the team who makes the most mistakes usually *wins*!

See also:

The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture By Frank R. Wilson

Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wood

You Matter More Than You Think by Karen O’Brien with illustrations by Tone Bjordam

Not 1 and 0, but infinity.

You matter more than you think.

Very good book:

https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910858

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910791

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Love reading and writing on paper, but do read and write quite a bit on computer screens, too. Phone screens are too small and uncomfortable for me.

No TV at home, either. And even videogames, which I love, have held less and less interest unless they have good coop modes, an unusual mechanic, or excellent sound and story.

Leaning more and more towards playing music, which has felt like a present from the gods.

Having read McLuhan — https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-ASW-848 — and Lanier (You Are Not A Gadget), I worry about the future, but am hopeful young people will indeed rebel.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853011

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Still occasionally get interrupted because of life, of course, but marking off an hour and a half and closing a door and putting all chores/calls on silent during that time is very helpful. And I understand that for many it is simply not possible. Private space is a luxury in much of the world.

A sense of play and no obligation also helps. For more on this I recommend Rubin’s The Creative Act.

I use Macs for work and PC for games, and this little box seems a good opportunity to play The Legend of Linux on a desktop or a couch, and make it true.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632602

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632589

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Made me laugh : )

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904974

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184362

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Keyboards can approach that with polyphonic touch keys like the Hydrasynth (lean into keys, pressing them harder, for bending the tone in a configured patch), sustain pedals, and pitch bend/modulation controls, but not the nuanced touch of skin on a vibrating string.

I think synth guitars exist, too, but don’t know anything about them. The pedalboards are enough, maybe :)

For one, you can’t easily play two melodies simultaneously across several octaves, using both of your hands, with an electric guitar.

Stringed electronic instruments do have their advantages, but so do the others. Each music making thing has its place in the spectrum.

Two books that have helped me greatly in my musical life, in case people haven’t heard of them, are The Listening Book, and Bridge of Waves, by W.A. Mathieu.

Should HN allow links to sites that break the back button, like all Meta sites (Ig, Fb, etc)?

The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening to animals: https://www.biblio.com/search.php?stage=1&title=The+Man+Who+...

Video demonstration of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtTz9GtAT4

The F-15E was a different story, which I remember from flamewars at flightsim forums over how slow of a climber it was :)