I help people discover they can do more than they thought they could. I write music. I think Excel is the best thing Microsoft ever produced. I speak executive, nerd, finance, janitor, design, code, and process. I meditate underwater in sixty-minute sessions. I know that “I” and “We” are required at different times for different things. I’m the quiet dude you’ll tell your life story to at a party. I love finding possibilities and putting old things together in new ways. I ride a GSX-R750 when the weather’s nice.
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Recent Articles
Win, Lose, or Draw?
February is over. It’s March 3 and the nagging feeling that I’m supposed to be in the studio working whenever there’s a hint of free time is starting to dissipate. This also means that all of the things I put on hold for a month – yard work, tax prep,…
Leave the Light On
The last day. Sometimes this is a “he ran out of steam” day, and sometimes it’s a last burst of energy with surprising results. I suppose that’s true of any day in the month, but it’s always fun to see what ends up happening. I didn’t have a lot of…
Slight Presence
You know those scenes in the movies where the protagonist is hanging on by their fingertips, slips, falls, and then catches themselves on something else at the very last second? This track is the Song-A-Day equivalent of of that. I didn’t start working particularly early, but it also wasn’t very…
Nimble Hearsay
The last few days of Song-A-Day are always unpredictable. Sometimes I’m just dragging across the finish line with whatever fumes are left in the tank, and other times I’m rushing to get several final ideas out before the clock hits zero. This year seems more of the former than the…
Can’t You Pay Attention to Alice?
After a semi-cathartic morning of writing, an extended stay at the dog park, and various small chores, I was in a neutral-positive mood when I sat down in the studio. A recent thread on VI-Control had been on the topic of Lo-Fi and appropriate libraries for that, so I shrugged…
Mare Spumans
Preface: The first part of this post is largely about my mood, being unhappy, and what I did about it. And there’s no mention of the music. The first bit is important in that it documents how I ended up with the track I did, but if you just want…
Malfunctioning Lullaby
The month grows short. So has my mood. After finishing up my cover day tracks, I spent about four hours in the studio and didn’t get a single thing accomplished other than recording 8 bars and deleting them. I gave up around 11:30 and…
Cover Day 2026
It’s the 22nd. That means it’s cover day. I think I’ve probably danced around this before, but let me come out and be blunt this time. I don’t really like cover day. It’s actually a really nice idea and there are some big positives to it. First, it’s a one-day…
Invisibles
It’s the 22nd as I write this. I forgot to write the entry for Invisibles yesterday, which is a shame because I had a couple of things I wanted to document. Hopefully I’ll remember everything as I write this. The most important thing, I suppose, is what inspired it. The…
Faint Glyphs
It’s already late in the evening and I need to get started on the next piece, so I’m going to try and limit my diversions. This one had a really weird process. I think the end result is decent, and one that I suspect I’ll listen to more than I…
Stet
I started the writing session by playing with XO, intending to do a beat thing. I played, but didn’t really get any traction with anything. Then I played with various instruments, focusing on some of the synths that I don’t use very often. Again, nothing really stuck. I went through…
Put On Your Best Dress
There’s an old saying in the Song-A-Day community that week three is when things get weird. I say that I’ve been starting in week three on day one for the last few years. Today is a good example. It’s a sad reality of the way software is licensed and copy-protection-infected…