I played saxophone as a kid.
In high school a few of my friends dad's were working jazz guys around San Francisco, I played a lot of Parker and Coltrane.
Same time you could see Primus, Metallica, Faith No More, etc at local clubs cheap.
Horn will get you felt up my old ladies, bass will get you an intimate tour of bathrooms with young cocktail waitresses.
Whatever, I started playing bass bc I could actually read music and had a good amount of formal music training.
I got jobs at vintage guitar stores while coming or going from one college or if college in LA and SF. Real scum bags owned that niche retail environment. More upscale pawn shop than anything else. Commissions were higher than a regular retail store, and the atmosphere allowed me to attend class.
I functioned well around studio staff handling rentals, dealing with foreign or well heeled investors. The trick was the drug addict owners, club scene, and lost general public.
No one ever realized my father was a Fed, he was the kind of guy that would sit in a bar with you right before your organization's arrest made the paper.
That kind of upbringing makes it easy to deal with extremes while maintaining a correct compass.
Sometime around 97 my friends in early Web facing tech turned me on to jobs I could tackle easily. I stopped hearing music. I turned my ability to remember a large volume of detail and information to other pursuits. You can become someone else fully if you know how to physically perform at a high level consistently.
Well, most people think that capacity is limited.
I think that you just ignore what you don't use regularly, but if you know what you are doing knowledge doesn't evaporate.
So here I am at almost 43, fully embracing "the Cloud", starting to program almost as much as I used to architect servers and networks.
I started hearing music again in my head, not the way I did when I worked in stores, but when I played horn.
Coding, done properly, is less typing and more playing your way through "Now's the Time" the way you hear it in your head.
So yeah, something I used to do has always been in the background of what I do now.
It just crept in slowly, until I realized that it's time to reorder the importance of things in my life that produce outcomes I value most.
In high school a few of my friends dad's were working jazz guys around San Francisco, I played a lot of Parker and Coltrane.
Same time you could see Primus, Metallica, Faith No More, etc at local clubs cheap.
Horn will get you felt up my old ladies, bass will get you an intimate tour of bathrooms with young cocktail waitresses.
Whatever, I started playing bass bc I could actually read music and had a good amount of formal music training.
I got jobs at vintage guitar stores while coming or going from one college or if college in LA and SF. Real scum bags owned that niche retail environment. More upscale pawn shop than anything else. Commissions were higher than a regular retail store, and the atmosphere allowed me to attend class.
I functioned well around studio staff handling rentals, dealing with foreign or well heeled investors. The trick was the drug addict owners, club scene, and lost general public.
No one ever realized my father was a Fed, he was the kind of guy that would sit in a bar with you right before your organization's arrest made the paper.
That kind of upbringing makes it easy to deal with extremes while maintaining a correct compass.
Sometime around 97 my friends in early Web facing tech turned me on to jobs I could tackle easily. I stopped hearing music. I turned my ability to remember a large volume of detail and information to other pursuits. You can become someone else fully if you know how to physically perform at a high level consistently.
Well, most people think that capacity is limited.
I think that you just ignore what you don't use regularly, but if you know what you are doing knowledge doesn't evaporate.
So here I am at almost 43, fully embracing "the Cloud", starting to program almost as much as I used to architect servers and networks.
I started hearing music again in my head, not the way I did when I worked in stores, but when I played horn.
Coding, done properly, is less typing and more playing your way through "Now's the Time" the way you hear it in your head.
So yeah, something I used to do has always been in the background of what I do now.
It just crept in slowly, until I realized that it's time to reorder the importance of things in my life that produce outcomes I value most.
