School starts for me next week, with meetings this week and summer projects to wrap up. I’m staying home today, though.

Because the Republican presidential primary debate is happening at Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee tonight and some sort of associated “fair” (and, like, maybe merch sales?) is happening all day in the outside plaza— on the hottest day of the year, unfortunately for them—lots of streets downtown between my house and the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus are closed.

Anyway, in checking my Gmail—which, remember when you could only get a Gmail account if you got an invitation from someone who already had one? I was invited by a student who was already working for Google and got to experience a brief moment of feeling like a very special tech-hip kind of gal😂—I saw that an online writer I follow has started a podcast. I have liked this guy for a couple of years. Both what he has to say about the writing process and his own ideas and essays on many interesting subjects are always interesting , inspiring, and thought provoking to me.

So I thought I’d share. Partly to support him and partly because I genuinely think that it is some thing that would be of value to others.

I think this link will get you to his article that describes the project and provides links that will lead you to the podcast. In case it doesn’t, his name is David Perell, and the title of his podcast is “How I Write.”

Link to David Perell’s article/post: https://ckarchive.com/b/gkunh5hd64owebrh5055699?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Monday+Musings+%28Big%2C+Big+Day%29%20-%2011545735

And actually, here is the latest “podcast” recording on YouTube, just to make it extra easy to check out.

You also might like to take a look at the kind of stuff he writes on Twitter (@david_perell). Aside: Twitter will never be “X” to me! That’s an affectation (PR stunt?) I hope Elon Musk will at some point abandon, just as Prince eventually left behind his weird, unpronounceable symbol.

On a completely unrelated note (no pun intended until I noticed how the word “note” matched up with the rest of the sentence, which you haven’t read yet but at which point I decided I did indeed intend it to be a pun after all😀), this song popped into my head this afternoon, and I couldn’t resist pulling up the video. It gave me a smile, so I thought I’d share it with you, as well❤️

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