Today’s thought is about those people and machines who talk the most loudly about what is fashionable and what is cool, and how this all adds up to a blur of noise that needlessly cramps our ability to do the work. The longer I’m around, the more I recognise that these notions don’t matter, and things come and go in surprising ways. However, they do have a sneaky habit of entering our subconscious and acting as a perfectly reasonable voice, even becoming your own voice, that prevents us from taking the true path of artistic discovery, going at a project boldly and without fear. Or maybe that’s just me, fear is a weird motivator. Today I’m leaning into the ugliest, un-coolest, most unfashionable sounds I possibly can to see what gems I can find.