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Naomi

@naomiii #13077

Writer | Book lover | Hobby Classical Guitarist | Marketing /subsquid | /classical music nerd and /postcards lady
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"Podcasts are too easy to start"

Brainrot, now also in long form.

https://youtu.be/gPhFPcP0r7w?si=3sIaeYhkXGtAUiqF
I discovered this coincidentally, and now I'm officially harp-obsessed.

https://youtu.be/cRdzHgCrEww?si=S5_InumyXdfgQlpt
Time for the good stuff.
Another benefit of using postcards as bookmarks is that once in a while as you go back to a book, you find a surprise postcard.

Like me today.
On that topic, also recommend this article on the last tiny Tokyo shop

https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-last-tiny-tokyo-shop-and-its-owner/
Now reading the revenge of the analog by David Sax.

Written pre-Covid but it appears the underlying trends persist. Where people crave the haptic experience of the real thing.

So far that they even buy vinyls without having a record player. 😂
Not everyone in Japan is a Mari Kondo...

There's a reason Ghibli rooms have a charming chaos.

Lovely article about the magic of clutter.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-clutter
/Japan
I went on an autumn leaves appreciation walk.
Since Idagio didn't really have a classical guitar playlist, I made my own.

Can't add context in that app so, I added my thoughts on each piece on @fileverse instead.

Link to playlist also in the doc ✨
Sometimes it's okay to get some brain rot.

At times, I think consuming dumb shit is perfectly fine. I binged 90 day fiance during Covid and, yes it's stupid and scripted and pathetic but it gave me an escape from the cruel reality I could not change.

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-teenagers-are-deliberately-seeking-brain-rot-on-tiktok
I decided to procrastinate on my work writing by doing some private writing...

Faust has been on my mind a lot (not the @faust - although it might be related), 200 years old, its lessons remain timeless.

Btw, if you click on the window, not the read button, it opens the article in a new tab. 🫡

https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/faust
Gm.

Porridge season is here.
The last minutes of my boost I dedicate to Erwin, my absolute favorite character from AoT.

And this scene that broke my heart. And still does.

What a great Manga.
Kierkegaard reminds me a lot of Pesoa, although he'd use the term ennui.

I don't think boredom is all that bad.

It is telling us something; therefore, we should - at least - at times endure it.
Found an arrangement of this adagio for guitar in one of my score books today...So here I am listening to it on repeat.

Bach Concerto based on Marcello's Oboe concert. Canada is lucky to have such guitarists.

https://youtu.be/T_KV16qS9iM?si=ofdv1xLmTyNcW_DT&t=172
This beginning lives in my head rent free.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Angels Game.
Brahms started this piece as a simple sonata, felt a piano didn't do it justice, so he worked it toward a symphony. There he got stuck, until, in a dream he had a vision of reworking a symphony into a piano concert.

That's how we got his first piano concert.

https://youtu.be/Bl1A02qWSI4?si=pmq0cbT-3OWe4LHr
Since apparently it's my time to get a boost...

Figured I'd just reshare my blog on productivity, because, it never hurts to remind people - there's more to life than constantly doing what's approved as productive.

https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/being-productive-or-nah
I love this card I received today so much.

From a fren in SF who I got into sending postcards. Feels good.
Taking advantage of the no cars area.
Gm people,

this might be a niche opinion... I appreciate the read in feed mini app. It's probably great for announcements.

I don't find it good for deep reading though - especially longer pieces.

As such, it'd be amazing if there was an easy option to go from the app with one click to the article as published on paragraph.
Time to catch up on JJK for my dose of despair with the latest volume.