I don’t need new gear to sound better. I just need to get better at using the gear I already have. I’m using my existing gear, and getting better results.
Blaise Alleyne
318 posts
Over the past several months, I keep coming back to this thought: The internet is a confirmation bias machine. I once believed that because the internet exposes people to new ideas, it helps us to think more carefully. I still believe it can, but the vast majority of the time, […]
I’ve never spent more than maybe $20 on a keyboard. In fact, I’m not sure if I’ve ever bought more than one keyboard – aside from purchasing three of the excellent Logitech K400s for my family room, tabling, etc. I’ve always just had old spare keyboards lying around my house […]
24 years ago, Ben Folds’ Rockin’ the Suburbs entered my bloodstream – and I still remember the bus ride to Montreal with the CD in my Discman. It wasn’t just the music though. Part of what mesmerized me is that the album was practically a one-man show. Ben Folds wrote, […]
There are about 30 working desktops and laptops in my house, ranging from 1993 to present, but I think the coolest computer I have is my parents’ old IBM ThinkPad 240. One of the smallest ThinkPads ever made back in 1999, this is a vintage ThinkPad. It’s still operational today […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been expanding my two-screen setups into three-screen setups — a laptop plus two external monitors. Because I thought I only had one display port (HDMI), I went searching for USB display adapters. (I just realized today that my ThinkPad T470 has a USB-C / […]
Printers have always been terrible. I got away without buying a new printer since 2008 or 2010… until today. I bought an HP printer, because I’ve used HP printers for a long time, and mainly because of the existence of hplip. My goal, after all, is to have no nonsense […]
The real epidemic is epistemic. We’re living through an information schism. I have a lot more to say on this based on my winter reading, but in the meantime I’d like to call a few shots for the next six months. One way to verify whether something is true or […]
Understanding exponential growth is a prerequisite to understanding the pandemic. I’ve had many conversations about the public health response to COVID-19 over the past year. Setting aside more extreme conspiracy thinking, I’m increasingly convinced that most of the non-conspiracy skepticism of public health measures comes down to misunderstanding exponentials. People […]