Thinking some more about my app idea. In effect, the app (or rather the data driving it) addresses the idea of market failure due to costs that aren’t accounted for in pricing. In a simplistic model, producers communicate with consumers through prices. But it’s clear that when costs like environmental degradation aren’t incorporated into the price, the model breaks down. The app would provide a way to surface costs like this directly to consumers.

Exclusive: German startup Enote working on complex task of digitalising musical notation
— Read on www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/20/a-gamechanger-for-musicians-app-offers-library-of-interactive-sheet-music

A few years ago, I thought about adding a foot switch input to an iPad to allow page turning. Boy, I haven’t kept up … of course, the damn tablet can keep track for me better than I can and flip the page itself at the right time.

Ambulation – Extended Soundwalking with Bela https://blog.bela.io/2020/11/18/ambulation-tim-shaw-soundscape/

Kinda like this. Calls out some interesting gear, too: a device that demodulates radio to audio without a tuner, which led to a tin box with a contact piezo and some springs, …

I like the walk as compositional structure idea, too. The processing in PD sounds routine, but it’d be good to experience this.

Au Revoir but Not Adieu https://nyti.ms/2IEpEu4

What a lovely bit of writing.

K, time to start planning. Extended adventure trip. Douglas, Martin. Overland by … ? Bike? Motorbike? (No). Jeep? Land Rover/Cruiser? Go for a walk? Neither one likes sailing, so …

At least a month or two away, in places we wouldn’t otherwise go. South America? Silk Road? South East Asia?

I’ve got the time, and they do too. And we aren’t getting any younger. Time to realize the cliché.

Amazing how much this talking from a balcony looks like Mussolini …

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Hacking the Law to Open Up Zones of Commoning http://www.bollier.org/blog/hacking-law-open-zones-commoning

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/rumble/

This blew my mind. A documentary illuminating the influence of Native American music on American popular music: jazz, blues, r&b, folk, rock and roll. I had no idea of this history.

Had me out of my chair in amazement.

Interesting insight, from the last few slides of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go: a major problem with poverty is precarity, the inability to manage the ups and downs of having money one day and not the next. Stressful, hard to plan.

UBI manages the income side, but doesn’t limit the swings of the things you spend money on. One day, your cat gets sick and you have to pay a vet bill. The way we normally handle this is insurance, to smooth out the dips for a (small) cost, say 1-2% of income.

So, UBI + micro-insurance becomes a way to make poverty basically very stable and boring, instead of unstable and stressful. And you can go beyond UBI + micro-insurance to the next level, where risk increases, stress increases, and so does reward.

Interesting guy. His business is Mattereum, the application of Ethereum blockchain to things, in service of a vision of efficiency of consumption that in eliminating waste also supports economic justice (!) Check out https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/engineering-consumption-ac3bd74b1a21

Feels real.