// Break It Till You Make It
I used to break gear on purpose.
A short one, from 2015, brought in from Medium. About pushing music equipment past what it’s meant to do, and a habit I’ve let go slack since.
Also: an Amiga loading image files as audio, and the accidents that turned out brilliant.
When I was making music, I’d push the kit as far as it would go. Dial everything to the max or the min. Do things you’re not supposed to do with it. I once loaded image files as audio samples. You could do that on an Amiga.
Most of it came out as noise. Sometimes it came out brilliant. Happy accidents, and I’d learned to notice them.
I don’t do nearly enough of that anymore. Breaking the tool on purpose, to find something in it the manual never mentioned.
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Previous Journal Post
// Emoticomp
Give a smart object a personality and people stop being afraid of it. Get the personality wrong and it’s worse than having none.
An old post, brought in from my old journal. From January 2011, before anyone said Internet of Things out loud. About giving connected objects character, and everything that can go wrong when you try.
Also: a rabbit that couldn’t read the news, a MacBook that breathes, and fourteen rules for being polite if you’re a thing.