Notes on design, building, and the business of the web.
Most people know one Brubeck song. Here's why the quartet mattered more than 'Take Five' suggests—and what odd time signatures taught me about building on the web.
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A weekly-rotation recipe for roasted spaghetti squash baked with marinara and three cheeses — plus the drying trick that keeps it from going watery.
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You've heard his saxophone on the Pink Panther Theme a thousand times without knowing his name. What a legendary session player teaches anyone who builds under someone else's brand.
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There's no recording of Buddy Bolden, yet he built the rhythmic move that turned marching-band music into jazz. A look at the Big 4 and what it teaches about building things that outlive your name.
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Miles Davis rebuilt the oldest form in American music by taking things away. A web builder's look at why subtraction beat complexity in 1959 jazz — and still does.
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How a Vanderbilt heir who could have done nothing instead discovered Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Charlie Christian — and what his taste-with-courage teaches anyone deciding what to back.
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In 1944, thirteen Black men became the Navy's first Black officers, scored a 3.89, were accused of cheating, and then got forgotten for decades. Here's their story — and their names.
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A twelve-second trumpet intro from 1928 still gets studied a century later. Here's what one recording taught a web developer about mastery, contrast, and doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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A close look at Shaka King's film, the real life of Fred Hampton, and where the movie compresses, bends, or nails the truth about his assassination.
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Miles Davis walked into the studio in 1959 with almost no written music and made the best-selling jazz album ever. Here's why constraint and trust outlast polish.
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A hands-on breakdown of every Napa Valley Wine Train tour — from the Gourmet Express to Quattro Vino — with honest takes on pricing, food, and which one to actually book.
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