Elliott's Podcast is in a new setup this week. Two tracks and a mish mash of topics, let's go! 

0:00 - Info about the new desk setup 

6:56 - Coping with Tech Failures 

15:28 - Jamson (Music)

21:10 - Restful Sleep Tea by Yogi 

22:50 - How to Wake Up Early - https://www.elliottfienberg.com/blog/...

25:20 - Picking Projects to Work On -https://www.elliottfienberg.com/blog/...

28:30 - Taking an Inventory of Your Skills - https://www.elliottfienberg.com/blog/... 

31:20 - Dirty Birds book by Morgan Murray - https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/...

41:00 - Using Notion to Organize Files - http://notion.so

43:00 - My Problem with Spotify 

57:10 - Princess of Bollywood (Music)

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Lots of great lessons learned by listening to a recent podcast by Andrew Huberman on The Science of Making and Breaking Habits.   https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-making-and-breaking-habits/ 

Music in this episode is a piece code named Silent Syd.   

0:00 - Hello and COVID update 

1:39 - Instagram Reels Op. Ed.  

6:18 - Time Tracking Update 

7:27 - Huberman on Habits 

10:50 - Dealing with Afternoons 

19:30 - Exercise in the Morning  

29:00 - Sleep on Information  

31:00 - 48 Hour Projects  

35:00 - Music performance: Silent Syd   

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To ring in the new year I play some guitar for you. I also tell the story of how I ended up with an Epiphone Century 1966. Happy new year and enjoy! 

Sit with Elliott for a bit while we talk about how doing creative work is available to everyone, and why it's important to turn off the negative bias in our minds in order to do that work. 

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Salad Discussion, Slipping Work in Between Commitments, Goal Setting for the New Year and more!

Music in this episode is Hell or High Water.

Don't forget to support the further creation of this important work over at patreon.com/fienberg.

Music: Amazing Grace as played on Elliott's Instagram.

Lots to go over in this episode as I talk about one of the metrics I'm watching on my Screen Time report, the Spanish Rice I cooked this week, some thoughts about Smooth Jazz as well we'll listen to my newest track Let Love In. My patreon is live at patreon.com/fienberg. Enjoy! 

Lots to go over in this episode. I update about: 

Grind size in the Buphallo filter. Info about creator training over the holidays. My tip for cooking pasta. Update about my golf swing and drive distance. Sony ZV-1 mini-review.

The track is That Time the Earth Stood Completely Still on the forthcoming release Let Love In (link). 

Enjoy!

In this episode we show a few gift ideas for a musician or budding musician and go off on all the regular tangents. 

This episode is sponsored by the Stainless Steel Pour Over Cone Coffee Dripper by Buphallo: https://amzn.to/3oMouhI

The featured track is The Entire World in a Tiny Grain of Sand by Elliott Fienberg: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/elliottfienberg/the-entire-world-in-a-tiny-grain-of-sand

This week I took some time to work through a few areas of the music industry that are quickly changing. When you add up the areas of fan funding, NFTs and livestreaming, you can see that in many ways artists are getting wise to the game that has been played so far with streaming services not being the fairest crack at earning a living.

The fundamental question that has to be asked here is something along the lines of, “do musicians deserve to get paid for their work?”, and while it might be an offensive question to work through we should likely agree that on the whole there is nothing that commands artists to get paid for their work.

Because it’s all based on context: Is this artist operating inside a network that makes it appealing for the flow or energy of money to make its way over to this person?

Listen to the podcast for the full deep-dive discussion. I also play a track called Dark Matter that I made last summer, which is what the artwork is in reference to.