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Yoda Would Never Say This to Young Musicians (On Arts and Entrepreneurship)
Yoda would never say this to a young musician apprentice:
“Are you an artist or an entrepreneur? Choose you must.”
He also wouldn’t say:
“Anger, fear, entrepreneurship. The dark side of the Force are they.”
But he might say:
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
When I was growing up, practicing my Bach and Chopin...
How to use a “chorus slide” to make your presentations more focused, sticky, and appealing.
Pop songs have choruses; why don’t presentations have them too?
Why don’t all classical music concerts provide child care?
I love classical music concerts. I have two young kids. These two facts are not in harmony with one another. Let me tell you why, then let me propose a solution.
Twitter as a Research Tool?
In the summer of 2014, my Twitter feed was peppered with images of old and interesting books. Drawings of leaves by Ben Franklin, philosophical marginalia, Massachusetts psalters... They were all being posted by a friend of mine, whom I assumed was on a research trip at an archive and was posting all of her interesting finds. That turned out not to be the case.