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From the corporation with the worst customer support ever. Oh, the irony.

Poseur to Composer: https://poseurtocomposer.postach.io/ I learn how to play piano and music theory from scratch. Before I played bass guitar in a nu metal band but didn't know how…

Readwise.io user here, and I love it. Readwise helps me remember what I read (not just books, but articles too). I get sent a daily email with three excerpts/highlights and it quic…

I use both daily. I use G Keep for temporary notes of any kind, and Evernote for posting on my blog (via Postach.io) and anything I'll want to keep long-term. So G Keep for short t…

You articulate yourself well, especially considering English is not your mother language. I'm halfway through a similar project I call Poseur to Composer: http://poseurtocomposer.c…

Perfectionism and analysis paralysis are common obstacles to progress. Also fear of failure. In June of this year I decided to learn music theory and to play piano, almost on a whi…

Charity never fails. If you resolve to love and accept people above all else, then the rest will take care of itself. This is not easy to do some days, but it is failproof. Try it …

I recently put forward the idea there's enough music in the world already[1] because millions of songs on Spotify have never been heard[2]. And of those millions of unheard songs, …

and even do facial stretches said to reduce the size of their face Can someone explain this one to me? Is this a weird translation or do people in Japan actually do this?

Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every…

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Correct. In Canada, you only see the retail price. The Canadian consumer still needs to know if the item is taxable and what tax(es) that might be. It's an issue for people on a ti…

In a similar vein, I developed a search engine for sales taxes in Canada (works for all provinces and territories). It was a much, much bigger undertaking than I initially thought,…