brooklyn_ashey

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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Thank you for articulating this. This issue has many manifestations in the interview process. It can be so frustrating.
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
I can relate to this. I was “bad” at math as a child, and was so bored by its basics or at least how they were taught. I never had a good foundation and so never got to takeTrig or Calculus in high school. Later, during my PHD studies, I di
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
I can say that Bandcamp made this release possible... it just got released this week! and this is a record that waited years to come out and is a big band featuring some of the best/most interesting jazz musicians in NYC - the composit
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
An artist is always fundamentally speaking about themselves— they have no choice in this. Herzog’s self applied to various subjects is just really compelling.
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Right, but then every company would just grow uberdevs and be chock full of awesome at some point, but it seems like that isn’t happening w these interns as often as would make the intern thing “worth it” for identifying future wonderdevs.
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Interesting piece. Two things: 1. How do these few absolutely spectacular developers blossom into such impressive specimens of the lot? Why not get them before this happens and help them over the greatness threshold? 2. Isn’t there a kind
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Shoot. I was trying to be supportive/positive. I have worked in many non-profits. I agree, writing virtuosity would be a tremendous asset in some of the jobs you mentioned. I have not yet encountered such skill in these realms. I’m all
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Throughout grad school, I worked as a writing tutor to support my humanities habit. Each new class of high school seniors was less skilled —and even less interested— in writing than the last. These were kids with 3.9 GPAs who went to Dalton
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Wait...does anybody care about writing skills anymore? ——outside—or even inside—journalism? I wish they did. Writing seems to be treated like a 20th century skill of the uber-affluent layabout these days. I jump for joy when I stumble upon
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Classical/Lyrical/MT (what is MT?musical theater??)styles do not require "more" technique. They require different techniques that have a long pedagogical history. The style is not harder to teach. Classical music has m
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
I'm with you on "born with": Karen Carpenter, Barbara Streisand and Whitney... we will never have another of any of these ever again. But Louis Armstrong?-- a great great singer and incredible, towering musician by any measu
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Paul, this absolutely breaks my heart. Anyone can learn to sing in tune. I’ve taught kids and adults who are “tone deaf” to listen and sing/play in tune in weeks to months. It isn’t a magic trick, just listening and singing and listeni
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
You don’t need a teacher. Seriously. The teacher thing is not the mindset you seek. Or rather, your best teachers are the great musicians you listen to over and over and admire from recordings and from your life. Jerry Reed had his own very
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Find a group ( or start one!) that likes similar music or all types and sit in a room ( or zoom?) and play these songs together- everyone goes around the room taking solos, singing the tune, or whatever they want to do one time through the
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
BTW, this is how birds learn their calls! The only app or teacher or tuning device you will ever really need are your own ears. We musicians develop technique by training ourselves to listen and sing using our listening as the guide— this i
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
I’m a professional musician in NYC. I perform and record classical and “jazz” and compose music. I learned to code a while ago too. Here are a few vocalists who “taught themselves” how to sing: Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, S
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
It is ageism when a company would hire a 25 year old with the same skill set but would’t hire the 45 year old in those circumstances (or insert anyone in a protected class). The point is, they arehappy to invest in young ppl but not so-ca
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Um, so you... failed to check a pretty glaring "edge case" is what you are saying? You maybe failed to optimize the solution, is what you are saying? Ok. Fortunately, this glitch— although certainly catastrophic— is a weakness in
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
“Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but
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by brooklyn_ashey 6y ago
Does Naxos pay Youtube for these takedowns?
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Imagine it like this: It feels like toxic propaganda that doesn’t jive with reality or empathy for anyone- an every man for himself lack of community and warmth. And for some, it feels even worse: it feels like the pressure to pretend you a
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
The thing is, I’m actually interested in why we, a community of engineers and tech people, aren’t genuinely interested in evolving the fundamental failures of our system. We might learn something from classical music’s failures which led to
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Why is it that no one questions the system in which these —at best, ridiculously obtuse—at worst, totally corrupt, often nepotistic— “interviews” reside? The whole “interview/audition” culture comes out of a kind of gladiator/Olym
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Truly excellent post! I discovered just how inaccessible the NYC transit system is for folks using wheelchairs or other personal assists when I had surgery. It is appalling how many elevators are broken all the time, thus making fast trans
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
There's also an epidemic of imposter syndrome blooming within these "competitive" tech companies. https://www.quora.com/Do-engineers-at-companies-like-Google-... I put "competitive" in quotes, becau
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Are you asking because this happened to you? You can subpoena the CVs of the people invited to the interview and you can cite the hiring/interview practices of the company and its record on age-related hiring and firing. That said, it&
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
I think once someone has carved out a place for themselves, it seems like it’s something to be attained, like it exists as a thing to envy or a “place”to be. But you are only ever seeing a distinct part of a longer, more complex story, the
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
Agreed. Ah, the New York Times with its paywall—- bastion of modern democracy! Loved the line about how this is the best example of democracy on offer, sheesh.
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
yeah- kinda the olive version of the maraschino cherry
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by brooklyn_ashey 7y ago
if the practice is not fun, in the sense that it’s compelling like a great book or a great game or a great conversation, then 1. it isn’t effective practice 2. you wont want to do it- great practice is for everyone

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