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Seeing a thumbnail of the video How to Build Immense Inner Strength | David Goggins, I immediately and instinctively said to myself in my head: “inner strength is not something you build; it’s something that is always within. What you do is you remove the obstacles that are holding it back. You let the light shine through.”

Perhaps the image of building oneself up piece by piece is something that is quite appealing to a person who judges oneself as somehow being broken, incomplete or unfinished inside. Perhaps that person also judges themselves as being weak, ascribing this quality to themselves as a response to something particular and generalizing outwards. This is the essence of self-improvement.

Microsongs by Slowly light is a very zappy and electronic-sounding EP that is an homage to the Arturia Microbrute. Similar to Reverie by The Exponent, the whole EP is made only with samples from the synth. The artist also commented on the YouTube video that the Microbrute is actually quite good at making percussive sounds, referring to the parent comment mentioning the Drumbrute.

One thing to keep in mind when listening to this EP is that it’s as much of a technical exercise as it a musical composition. Thus, it may not be to everyone’s aesthetic taste.

I got to try the Glove80 keyboard today. Unfortunately, what they say is true: it’s really hard to instantly transition from a standard keyboard to a split ergonomic one. And I found out two key reasons why:

1. The column stagger makes it so that standard keyboard muscle memory needs to be reworked to accommodate the different key positions.
2. Rearrangement of key buttons like the spacebar and backspace makes it so that I have to hunt for them.

I’m excited about how my own split ergonomic experiments go. I wonder if it’s just as hard to transition to the keyboard of my choice.