18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
Writing Excuses
How to Make Your Guitar Amp Louder
As a sound engineer, there's this technique that I learned that works great in audio engineering. It is terrible to try to work with in cooking. Start by turning the knob to 11 and then pull it back. This doesn't work well when you're trying to see how much cumin is enough. That's hard to undo. But I love this principle. And this is kind of a multi layered sort of approach to the approach because audio engineering and visual stuff and cooking are things that I've already talked about. They color not just what I write about, but how I talk about what I write.
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