In both learning how to draw and how to play a musical instrument, the temptation is to start with the hand. Pick up a pencil,

Left to Right: Pouya Hamidi (recording engineer extraordinaire), Timothy Kantor, Valerie Li, Adrian Fung, Eric Wong We just finished four long days of recording —

The Power of Limitations “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles It had been a whirlwind two weeks of work

Fishing for Complements: A Clarifying Framework    Last week, I suggested that effective communication consisted of two elements:    Effective Communication = What You Say

I was recently invited to speak and work with emerging professional musicians at a festival. While I continue to teach instrumental and chamber music in

Conservatories have spent centuries perfecting how musicians play, but not how they speak. In my doctoral dissertation, I interviewed 12 internationally award-winning, entrepreneurial classical musicians.

How We Misread Data: The Fentanyl Seizure Fallacy This article is written with a completely neutral political position. This post isn’t about whether fentanyl is

There’s an old story about a psychologist who placed five monkeys in a cage with a ladder leading up to a bunch of bananas. The

The Precedent Has Been Set  Though my goal this year is to write every day (and post at least three times a month), I’m already

Do Something… ANYTHING! “… so we are doing everything we can.” This was the concluding statement in a meeting I once attended. The presenter had