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Strong recommend (without even hearing it yet). This is a friend who played on my records and was most recently Don Henley's guitarist. You can listen to his older stuff to get an idea of his own songwriting.

christopherholtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/across-the-milky-way

#music #localmusic

It's a Lamb of God, Tool, Mastodon, et al kind of day

I'm starting to think electing someone with multiple antisocial psychological disorders as president was a bad idea.

GW Bush: it took me 7 years to create a recession
Trump v1: it took me 4 years
Trump v2: hold my beer, we are speed running this shit

therealadam.com/2025/04/01/our-calendars-are-often-painful.html

> ...in signing up for the job of engineering manager, I feel like I also signed up for the job of handling surprises and side-quests...They represent the friction points between my mental model of the organization or system and the details of the real world.

He probably saw that video about how well Russia is doing despite sanctions and decided to sanction us from the inside.

Excellent piece by @therealadam

buttondown.com/therealadam/archive/at-the-top-of-their-game/

"**Pace and confidence** are crucial. Good teams rise to excellence by figuring out how to go faster via **reduced friction** and **smaller increments**...Teams that ship daily can work up to a pace where estimation and planning are less critical. They’ve moved the threshold of risk..."

Say what you want about mid-to-late career Phil Collins, "Inside Out" is a total banger.

Yeah, April Fools is canceled. I get enough crap in the news coming in on my already filtered masto feed.

fediscience.org/@petergleick/114261813268740602