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Gaia and I released a cover of Runnin’ (Lose It All) in August. On the 3rd of October, it disappeared from all streaming services.

We sat down holding our takeaway coffee cups in gentle autumn sunshine.

– How’s your app doing?
– It’s about a year in the making, I still haven’t got many users, judging by the update count it’s around a hundred.
– Why don’t you kill it?

An honest question, not mean, not criticizing, just down to earth business thinking. I paused for a second.

– Hm, if I killed it, I would first try to buy it. If I couldn’t buy it, I’d build it again.

He nodded.

I noticed that r/Ardour was abandoned.

“I don’t use reference recordings anymore” - I heard that from a few sources, most prominently from Andrew Schepps and from Zedd. I was curious, how is it possible? Andrew Schepps’ opinion was that it’s really about recalibrating your hearing after you’ve been focusing on details.