# wlxpvn > notes on music, creativity, work, and life Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [welcome!](https://wlxpvn.com/about.md) - i'm just having fun on the internet; writing, curating, sharing music, tinkering, thinking about work and life and everything else; join me! txt – longer reflections, research and essays * thoughts on taste * thoughts on curation notes – short thoughts and fragments * boosting ambition * get every… ## Posts - [music: july 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-07.md) - resonance, and a loud july of trip hop, dub techno and acid house - [music: june 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-06.md) - a hot, slow june of ambient, dub techno and house – gigi masin, shed, coatshek, lord of the isles; discovery vs research - [music: may 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-05.md) - 'just having fun' as a creative strategy, and a month of boards of canada, the trip hop revival and ambient. - [music: april 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-04.md) - April: ambient techno listening – Beltran, The Detroit Escalator Co., Heathered Pearls, Appleblim and more - [letter to a young songwriter](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/letter-to-a-young-songwriter.md) - A few quotes from Visakan Veerasamy's letter to a young songwriter – on being prolific, remixing, and building taste. - [music: march 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-03.md) - ambient is having a comeback. tracks from brian eno, kmru & fennesz, voices from the lake, placid angles and more. - [thoughts on taste](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/thoughts-on-taste.md) - Recently, there’s been an active online discussion about taste, especially in the context of AI. The argument goes like this: when anyone can build or generate anything, craft is no longer the hard part. It is deciding what is worth making in the first place. Intuitively, that seems right. But it's… - [boosting ambition](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/boosting-ambition.md) - At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them,… - [music: february 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-02.md) - My February covered a wide range of genres, releases and artists – from dreamy ambient to chunky house or loud gqom. But what brought me the most joy (and kept me thinking a lot) was IDM (ambient IDM in particular: I discovered Yeong Die's new release Uncapturable, which is strange, cool and weird)… - [music: january 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-26-01.md) - A year ago, David Lynch passed away. I recently came across this quote: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same – the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds – every screening is different. The differ… - [motion: january 26](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/jpg-01-26.md) - [music: december 25](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-12.md) - Happy New Year. May your year be filled with curiosity and discovery. December felt long at first, then suddenly short. Now I'm starting 2026 with fresh energy – wanting to be more intentional, creative, and prolific. I recently wondered whether it's worth creating something that has been created b… - [were you there?](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/were-you-there.md) - I have always thought of creation and consumption as opposites. Creation felt meaningful, while consumption felt hollow: it is more satisfying to cook than to order food. More fun to take photos than to scroll through someone else's. I found it weird that I consume so much and produce so little – a… - [get every idea out](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/get-every-idea-out.md) - The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality. It's easy to lose yourself in consumption. Creating is the opposite – the more you make, the more you discover what's inside you. Here are some more quotes by Derek Sivers from "How to Live: Create": Embrace… - [music: november 25](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-11.md) - November felt heavy and quiet at once. Work filled most of it, but music filled the spaces between – processing, reflecting, sinking into sound. I was lucky to spend a day in Utrecht for Le Guess Who and thought a lot about listening – deep listening, immersive listening, social listening and liste… - [i know](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/i-know.md) - Someone sends you a track you've already heard, or shares a link about an article you read yesterday, and you respond: "I know." People do this all the time. It feels automatic, almost reflexive. But what are you really saying? "This is not news to me." It's an ego move, a status signal that you're… - [music: october 25](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-10.md) - I had been waiting for it most of the summer. The Venice Biennale Musica closing weekend, curated by Caterina Barbieri around the idea of "cosmic music" as the generative power to create new worlds. Three days of experimental performances across Venice. The weather was beautiful, and I had spent mo… - [try lots of things](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/try-lots-of-things.md) - "Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions." That's Paul Graham's advice for ambitious people who don't know what to work on yet. I think this applies to your career, but also to art, creativity, hobbies, personal development in general. Be curious, explorat… - [thoughts on curation](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/thoughts-on-curation.md) - Lately I've noticed I'm both consuming more curated recommendations and curating more myself. Building playlists, choosing what to share, collecting inspirations. Here are some rough notes on curation. Curation is back Information used to be scarce. Someone had to find it, gather it, present it. Cu… - [music: september 25](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-09.md) - September was full of busy days and quiet mornings. As summer said goodbye and autumn slowly woke up, I decided this would be the month I become a morning person and use the early hours to think. Evenings and daytime work blocks were mostly filled with ambient and dub techno. Early mornings, howeve… - [music: august 25](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-08.md) - Playlists * Ambient, updated – added a lot this month, mainly listened to ambient, working my way through some classic albums that I have in the backlog. Artists I played most 1. Global Communication (very deep, floating ambient) 2. Guy Contact (groovy, but also dreamy, cosmic house) 3. PJ Harvey (… - [output vs taste](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/output-vs-taste.md) - When you start making creative work, your taste is better than your skills. You can tell your work isn’t as good as you want. Apparently, that's normal and the only way to close that gap is by making a lot of work. “There’s stuff you love. You’ve got really good taste, but there’s a gap. 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