Jul 30, 2008
Tags: 50/90, productivity, songwriting
Nick is drawing graphs to keep track of how many words he’s written each day. That smacks of meta-productivity and procrastination to me, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Either way, his admission prompted me to calculate my song rate so far in the 50/90 Challenge.
50 songs in 90 days means 0.556 [...]
Jul 3, 2008
Tags: 50/90, productivity, songwriting
Tomorrow I embark upon my greatest musical adventure to date: to write 50 songs in 90 days. The 50/90 Challenge has been running for a few years, and is hosted by the FAWM guys. So far 1700 songwriters have signed up to the open challenge, which runs from tomorrow to the beginning of October.
Why would [...]
Jun 28, 2008
Tags: music industry, productivity, songwriting, TWiS
Christine Rosen agrees with my notion that successful multitasking doesn’t exist. It’s all about “the zone” (ie. attention).
Victor responds to the The Myth Of Multitasking from a songwriting perspective.
Justin speculates on the future of music, where tunes will be as customisable as Starbucks coffee. ;o(
Bruce argues that the nakedness of digital music throws the traditional [...]