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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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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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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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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