Output before Input #6 - 2022.01.19

🎵 Output before Input #6 - 2022.01.19

Output before Input #5 - 2022.01.18

🎵 Output before Input #5 - 2022.01.18

Output before Input #4 - 2022.01.17

🎵 Output before Input #4 - 2022.01.17

Output before Input #3 - 2022.01.15

🎵 Output before Input #3 - 2022.01.15

Output before Input #2 - 2022.01.14

🎵 Output before Input #2 - 2022.01.14

Output before Input #0 - 2022.01.13

🎵 Output before Input #0 - 2022.01.13

I just realized that my first post in this category wasn’t actually my first recording. Here’s a bonus episode zero :)

Output before Input #1 - 2022.01.14

🎵 Output before Input #1 - 2022.01.14

I’m often inspired by Tom Sach’s work. Recently I read about his philosophy of output before input, which is evidently something he learned from my quantitative design hero Edward Tufte.

I’ve started a daily “output before input” ritual for my guitar playing. Each morning that I successfully get out of bed without looking at my phone, I sit at my electric guitar and do a quick improvisation, usually 2-3 minutes in length. I’ve done enough now that I feel confident sharing them as their own category, and I’ll keep it up for as long as it bears something interesting to me. Hopefully anybody who listens will find it interesting as well.

Here’s the podcast on Pocket Casts, as a standard podcast feed, and as an Apple Podcasts-compatible link.

This is my non-machinist method for tramming my drill press (making sure the bed is 90 degrees to the chuck).

I’ll take any help I can get scrubbing my stove, inclusive of a Dremel brush arbor.

I prefer my pocket knives to be clipped to my belt, but the Fällkniven U4 doesn’t have a clip. Fortunately there’s nothing you can’t do with 3M VHB (very high bond) tape.