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After You’ve Mastered the Craft

David Lee Roth on Marc Maron [http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1034-david-lee-roth]: > “Once you’ve mastered the craft of it, that'll take you about 10,000-20,000 hours, then we can begin to create a composite of things you’ve heard before. The guy with the most

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New Newsletter: Consider Writing

Greetings from Utah, free will in a nutshell, and one of the secrets of life. It’s all in the latest newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/consider-writing]. Subscribe here [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe].

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A Few Seconds in Utah

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Free Will in a Nutshell

Annaka Harris [https://annakaharris.com](who has a great new book on the mystery of Consciousness [https://amzn.to/2Y9X2vW]) quoting Galen Strawson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson] on the Making Sense [https://samharris.org/podcasts/159-conscious/] podcast: > “What you do follows from what you are.’ That

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Violinists are Lazy

I’ve spent the past week at my son’s violin camp in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s an incredible opportunity for him to learn from the best violin teachers in the world. 681 students work with 184 teachers for a solid week of classes. The camp started with

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New Newsletter: Build Your Personal Library

Retro web publishing, legacy is a sales tool, and how much news is enough? It’s all in the latest newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/build-your-personal-library].

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Nobody ever says on their deathbed...

I see lessons about life couched in deathbed terms all the time. Just search “deathbed” and you’ll see endless lessons about what’s really important in life. It got really ramped up with the beloved 2012 book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the

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Newish Newsletter: An Unlikely Fix for Media

I forgot to post this last week, but there’s a new newsletter out. Check it out [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/an-unlikely-fix-for-media] and subscribe here [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe/].

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The Resurrection of DVDs

I will admit to laughing at people who collect DVDs. I’ve considered it a giant waste of money and space. But now I’m started to wonder if I was wrong. Samsung announced recently that they’re done producing new Blu-Ray players [https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/17/

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New Newsletter: Be a Librarian

The Austin Kleon interview, personal user manuals, why newsletters rule, and weeks worth of great quotes. It’s all in the latest issue of the newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/be-a-librarian]. Subscribe here [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe].