Music

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Behind the Album "20:20"

Written on 27 Apr 2021

Motivation

I adamantly believe that while ultimately feelings are how we make sense of the world (i.e. underneath the hood, thoughts are “understood” through changes in emotional states), we humans are terrible at preserving feelings and emotions. We feel so much so often and yet do so little to...


Ableton Live Stock Audio Effects

Written on 16 Feb 2020

There are ton of third-party audio effect plug-ins that you can find on the internet, costing anywhere from free to thousands of dollars; but one slightly underappreciated collection is the effects that come with Ableton Live.

In this post, I’ll list them and give a brief description of what each...


Building a Home Studio

Written on 20 Jan 2020

In this post, I’m going to share the planning / design doc I wrote for myself before setting out to build a small home studio.

But Why?

In the technology industry, developer productivity is something that most business people think of as “the % of our capacity we have...