The problem with participating in any race to the bottom is that you end up there.
July 15, 2025
Other observations
Polishing the rice
What can I learn from how brewers help or hinder the flavour profile of rice when they’re making sake?
14,500 days unnoticed
If I’ve only noticed the sunrise a handful of times out of tens of thousands of daily opportunities. What else have I missed?
Ready? Catch!
If we never know when the world will offer us a new idea, how can we best prepare for the moment when it inevitably comes?
Brain, Heart, Hips and Feet
If you feel like dancing, you probably wouldn’t book last minute tickets to a Chopin concert. So what’s bad music? And can bad books exist?
Exposure matters less and less
What changes in an art practice when the sharing of the work one makes becomes secondary to making the work in the first place?