Brian Dear

Now: Based in NM. Producer/arranger/musician: Confusion Boats (confusionboats.bandcamp.com).

Before: Founder/co-founder, various tech startups including Coconut Computing, Flatworks, Eventful, Nettle. Also stints at MP3•com, Eazel, eBay, and Real.

Also: Author of "The Friendly Orange Glow" tech history book (Pantheon, 2017) http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6

#music #bass #bassist #keyboards #guitar #drums #film #design #UX #CX #product #architecture #science #nonfiction #history #books #tech #EVs

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2024-04-06 19:06:45

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@npub1mdk…aptk
The gerund form in 7 letters or just a 7 letter verb for not helping?
inhibit?

2024-03-16 16:56:20

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@npub1nvp…agzg
And in the end
the grief we get
is equal to the grief
we give
Ahhh--ahhhhhh
or something like that I think

2024-03-15 22:30:00

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@npub17nv…96rn
https://mailboxlocate.com/states/NY/cities/RED%20HOOK

2024-03-15 02:48:11

Tell that to *anyone* over 33 and they’ll just 🤦‍♂️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/097/419/842/007/492/original/08f48e00561c208b.jpeg

2024-03-15 01:02:08

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@npub1ls2…8x9m
By gum, 15 million is right around the corner.
150 million, on the other hand . . . 🤷‍♂️

2023-12-13 15:25:07

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@npub19kr…8m4r
Understood. But stupid city pedestrians should know better, especially in a traffic crazytown like Boston.

2023-12-13 15:14:59

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@npub19kr…8m4r
Were all the pedestrians on the crosswalk walking against a Do Not Walk sign? I mean it appears that the left-turn lanes in both directions of traffic had green arrows which usually means the Do Not Walk signs are telling pedestrians to wait. [Then again, this is Boston. 😱]

2023-12-12 17:54:26

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@npub1typ…c8hh
New Mexico is a petrostate as well, and, surprise surprise, our Governor went to COP28 along with all the oil and gas reps.

2023-11-17 14:51:36

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@npub1mdk…aptk
I always thought only history gets to label something a Manifesto, and only after it has stood the test of time. Anyone, like say Andreessen, proudly and hubristically self-labeling their work a Manifesto runs the risk of, oh yes, it gets recognized by the public as one, but pejoratively; it gets recognized for all the wrong reasons, and held up as an example of why it’s so fraught to write one in the first place.

2023-10-21 15:10:50

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@npub1efv…4jx2 Why, it’s almost as if this is what you get when governments everywhere are completely, totally, utterly captured by the oil and gas industry, the richest most powerful industry in the world, for what, over a century. They want consumption of their product. So the world is designed to maximize consumption of their product. And in the US, suburbs are designed as a network of roads connecting houses to distant retailers, instead of local shops/markets within walking distance.

2023-09-27 16:57:17

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@npub1lnm…624t @npub1szz…g5lr
He's a criminal. He uses "perfect" in the sense of "the perfect crime." If a journalist has to inquire, they should instantly respond with, "perfect as in the perfect crime" whenever he utters it.

2023-09-18 19:16:16

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@npub1efv…4jx2 The Washington Post passed the EV willful ignorance tipping point at least 5 years ago. The Post is clueless and unreliable on the topic of EVs. They’ve become worse than the New York Times on this topic, which is an impressive feat.

2023-09-17 21:42:53

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@npub1typ…c8hh
Lots of brand-new modern apartment buildings popping up in San Diego these days offering ZERO parking.
[If you mentioned this late in the article, my apologies for missing it… see, there was a paywall…]

2023-09-14 15:21:29

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@npub1qw5…037m Well, he also didn't consider a lot of those people to be corporations.

2023-09-14 15:10:55

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@npub1efv…4jx2 Just *look* at Xitter! You see random, bottom-of-the-barrel, utterly untargeted run-of-house ads everywhere. Meaningless ads: ads for pubs 12000mi from where you live; ads for enterprise services; ads for construction business; ads for farmers; ads for devices for surgeons; political ads; and mostly, ads by random suckers who for some reason want to boost their tweets via ads!? The cumulative result: a river of non-sequitur meaningless drivel.
That, plus Nazis? No wonder X is dying.🤣

2023-09-02 12:16:45

Wow. Did not expect this. Jimmy Buffett at 76.
Rest in peace, Jimmy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/arts/jimmy-buffett-dead.html

2023-08-23 15:31:57

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@npub1mdk…aptk I dunno. That'd be nice. But I'm not so sure that's what's happening.
I'm also not convinced the Federated network of Mastodon platforms is a bold new direction away from the increasingly tribalized social networks. One could argue that Mastodon is actually the next step in the ongoing fracturing / breakdown / division into tribes we've seen started on places like Twitter. I mean, what other platform lets you block entire servers of people. Not even Twitter let you do that.

2023-08-17 04:07:58

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@npub15ne…cmpz Old music isn’t killing new music. Much of it is just better. Too much of ”new” music (today’s hits) is autotuned, formulaic, predictable, generic, corporate dreck.

2023-08-12 22:41:37

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Present that choice to MAGAs, they would not hesitate to pick Trump

2023-08-12 12:57:55

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Cthulhu, Jr.?

2023-08-11 13:01:17

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@npub1j46…3gm7
Experience is way more than tasks. It affects emotions, attitudes, it reinforces (or weakens) a customer’s attitude toward the brand; it’s the proverbial journey in Jobs’ idea of journey is the reward.
A focus on customer success at tasks often gets so lost as to be considered an afterthought instead of the core guiding principle.
Calling tech support and being successful there is just as key to good experience as UI/IA considerations. Try calling Google sometime. Or Tesla.

2023-08-11 12:04:39

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@npub1j46…3gm7 Always been this way. The whole notion of “experience” is wrong too, imho. That’s Jobs/Apple pushing some wishy-washy marketing vision from the 80s.
What’s desperately needed is a task, not visual, orientation: design for users successfully accomplishing tasks. Understanding the shortest and simplest path for a user to take for a given task and designing for that. Leads to designing the ENTIRE company culture around customer success.
[If only Tesla had this philosophy.]

2023-08-10 00:25:50

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@npub1c57…awu5 @npub1f0f…y3t7 @npub1qru…8lu4
The streaming services are so pathetic I now release on Bandcamp first and then a month later MAYBE on Spitify [sic] and Apalling Music [sic], I mean, I don’t see the point of giving content to the streamers; I basically get nothing in return.

2023-08-10 00:15:12

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@npub1c57…awu5 @npub1f0f…y3t7 @npub1qru…8lu4
I was thinking about this today, how single songs are woefully underpriced on #Bandcamp. A digital single for $1 is crazy; that’s 1970s prices. Should be at least $5 in 2023, imho.
I’ve sometimes spent will into four-figures on an individual song, to record, mix, travel to studios, pay to master, pay musicians and vocalists, etc. With Bandcamp and Paypal taking ~25% of that $1, It’s nearly impossible for an artist to recoup costs.

2023-08-06 03:46:21

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@npub1qea…782z I’ve driven EVs for ten years in every kind of bitter icy windy cold and blazing heat and have never seen anything close to 50% range loss. Sounds like total propaganda.

2023-08-05 22:14:24

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@npub1y4h…t26u The thing I like least about music-making: the ancient standards for music production, ranging from MIDI to my pet peeve, guitar effects boxes with the obligatory rat's nest of 1/4 jacks and power supplies--all of which should have gone the way of dinosaurs ages ago, and been replaced by either a super-fast wireless solution, or a super-fast wireless solution, or, worst case, a super-fast wireless solution.

2023-08-05 22:02:27

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@npub1typ…c8hh It's a slow-motion Fascist coup aligned with Putin (who must be thrilled), Brexit, Orban, etc. They're completely and totally against the American Constitution and what's left of democracy, hell, they don't even want America anymore and if they get power again, they'll make sure it's gone for good.
Gilead is coming.

2023-08-04 16:31:19

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@npub19lt…qfjk
Someone's next band name (not mine though) is Blue Screen Experience.

2023-08-04 14:21:36

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@npub1nzm…85c8 also myine

2023-07-09 13:58:17

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@npub1v03…nsl0 Loving that The Rolling Stones didn’t make the cut

2023-07-02 15:55:48

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@npub1mdk…aptk Nah, AI will be used to steal all the art made by humans and puts human artists out of work. Music, literature, visual arts. Wiped out.
Sculpture might be safe for a few extra years but not much.

2023-06-26 16:08:48

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@npub1mdk…aptk ?