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Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life

The only credit we can claim is for the use we make of the talent we are given. That is why I urge young musicians: "Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. You must cherish this gift. Do not demean or waste what you have been given. Work — work constantly and nourish it."

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Flea Talks About How Jeff Parker Just Gets People, Including Him

There's like this combination of a deep knowledge of music, a very comfortable and tactile relationship with his instrument, and this sensitivity that he's listening and reacting. He's not, like, sticking to a plan of, 'I know what I can do, and this will work.' He's listening. And there's this river of music inside of Jeff—all the stillness and the violence and the chaos and the absolute ethereal beauty that he can bring to music through his playing.

theconvivialsociety

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Becoming Our Unconscious

The would-be athlete that hypothetically employs a machine to do all the 'menial' drills for them so that they can get to the really exciting parts of the game will, in fact, never get to them at all.

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Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now

Chicago harmonica star Billy Branch has been teaching blues for 46 years but, he claims: "Never have I encountered anyone as young as Harrell Davenport with such a laser focused drive and ability to play the blues as it was played in the bygone golden era of the masters."

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Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

He argues the traditional classroom was designed for a narrow slice of students and wastes everyone else's time. The fix isn't more money or better teachers; it's rebuilding from scratch around mastery, motivation, and AI.