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What I Think: PAUL GRAHAM
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Sunday, January 15, 2012. Where quoting from Judith Stacey’s book was helpful with aspects of relationship life, a business equivalent would be the essays of Paul Graham. Graham is a software guy whose technology paved the way for making internet purchasing possible. He sold to Yahoo! And now funds start-ups. On getting a venture going. From: Start-Ups in 13 Sentences. On the importance of being around like minds. From: Cities and Ambition.
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What I Think: TREVOR HORN
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Friday, March 30, 2012. I wrote this short tribute to Trevor in a Guardian blog by Helienne Lindvall. Trevor Horn is one of the great geniuses of the studio. When I first heard Relax by Frankie on the car radio I almost drove off the road. “What the hell was that! 8221; Slave To The Rhythm is still as entrancing as it was back in its day. I hold them in the highest regard and it’s good to hear their stories. Posted by CLARK SORLEY.
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What I Think: TABLOID TRASH
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Sunday, September 02, 2012. Evidence this week a horrible interview in the Scottish Sun with violinist Nicola Benedetti. It was a particularly odious example of the junk I wrote about before. Setting aside an artist’s achievement in favour of salacious commentary on her sexuality. Besides being talented and articulate Nicola also commits the crime of having beauty attributes and is thus fair game in the eyes of a sleaze-bag journalist. Benedetti...
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What I Think: HAVING IT ALL
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece in The Atlantic. Started off promisingly enough suggesting that young women needed to rethink their demands about “having it all”. She spoke of giving lectures to this effect and hearing from sympathetic and relieved students for whom the having-it-all mantra was becoming increasingly tedious. Read Lori Gottlieb’s response. For a merciless attack on having-it-all. Posted by CLARK SORLEY.
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What I Think: HOW LONG SHOULD IT TAKE?
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. HOW LONG SHOULD IT TAKE? Saturday, May 05, 2012. The Blue Nile’s singer Paul Buchanan had a terse moment with his manager Ed Bicknell who was being hard on him for not working fast enough. The band was famous for taking a while and seven tracks in seven years just wasn’t cutting it. Apart from anything else by 2004 an album was expected to have more material. So how long should it take? As long as it does is the answer. It can take forever o...
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What I Think: STEVE JOBS
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple yesterday and is everywhere being discussed like he’s dead already. I suppose the obituary style commentary is fair enough given that his standing down is a death of sorts. It’s the death of an iconic man’s career, the career of a rare individual admired by millions. As I suspected when I wrote a few weeks back Steve didn’t have long to go. He died on Thursday of this week&...Your ti...
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What I Think: THE PRODUCER'S ART
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. About Protools not being so easy to master led to another question: does the apocryphal ease of studio apps suggest a more widespread prejudice against music production generally? Posted by CLARK SORLEY. Scotland, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. By Blog and Web.
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What I Think: AUDIOPHILES & NEIL YOUNG
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. AUDIOPHILES and NEIL YOUNG. Saturday, February 25, 2012. I heard complaints from Neil Young recently. About the quality of audio files - mp3s and the likes - and wondered does it really matter? We are informed that when you record at a high tech spec, say 24/96 in the jargon, by the time it goes to a CD the sonic content reduces to 16/44.1 which, I read the other day. Posted by CLARK SORLEY. Scotland, United Kingdom. View my complete profile.
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What I Think: ROB LEVINE'S FREE RIDE
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. ROB LEVINES FREE RIDE. Thursday, September 08, 2011. I think there are two crucial facts which pretty much kill off the case made in Free Ride. So, history is moving on and there is no turning back. Music is a complex phenomenon and the recording of it has never been only about its commodity value. Indeed its future may well lie in these more prosaic pursuits. Posted by CLARK SORLEY. Scotland, United Kingdom. View my complete profile.
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What I Think: TUNECORE V GROOVESHARK
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Philosophy • Relationships • Commentary • Personal • Music. Saturday, April 14, 2012. I contributed these remarks to an angry blog rant by Tunecore’s CEO against Grooveshark:. Posted by CLARK SORLEY. Scotland, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. By Blog and Web.
