Darrell Mann

T4D: 'What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.' Joan Didion #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 3, Local Quality - the storm... (6'14")... the calm... youtube.com/watch?v=N7w_Bppc…

40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - Bonnie + Gabe heavenly duo... youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8950ol…

40P Example: Principle 20, Continuity Of Useful Action - more cowbell #44723... youtube.com/watch?v=f190sQbo…

T4D: ‘The most irritating thing in life is that the honest person always loses in verbal jousting. For they are bound by the truth, while the liar can say anything.’ Fyodor Dostoevsky #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 22, Blessing-In-Disguise...

40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - interweaving pedal steel and organ... (one of the highlights of Boia Festival)... youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0AN5ZT…

40P Example: Principle 12, Equipotentiality - 'I Am Both'... beautiful Margaret Glaspy re-invention... youtube.com/watch?v=y8ovZgpE…

T4D: 'Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.' Anais Nin #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 8, AntiWeight - 'Don't Look Now, Satan's over there'... about an ex-boyfriend. Future of rock'n'roll 2026... youtube.com/watch?v=X1bZlV6G…

40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - Paul Rodgers makes everything his own... youtube.com/watch?v=zpoPpZJJ…

T4D: 'The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.' David Foster Wallace

40P Example: Principle 6, Universality - Nerina Pallot is all of Ace... (great fun in Torrington last night)... youtube.com/watch?v=rmGiLAsb…

T4D: 'The known is finite, the unknown infinite: intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.' Thomas Henry Huxley #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 5, Merging - Don + Trisha... Best Henley solo album? youtube.com/watch?v=qQinnRFC…

T4D: 'Mediocristan is where we must endure the tyranny of the collective, the routine, the obvious, and the predicted; Extremistan is where we are subjected to the tyranny of the singular, the accidental, the unseen, and the unpredicted.' Nassim Nicholas Taleb #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 13, The Other Way Around - Kathleen flips Tom... youtube.com/watch?v=txH6DFf2…

T4D: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.' William Gibson #Innovation

T4D: 'The scariest moment is always just before you start.' Stephen King #Innovation

40P Example: Principle 17, Another Dimension - BVs youtube.com/watch?v=DMxXt6MM…