Jazz music, especially if it's from the early 1900s, has this endless aura of romanticism that I can't seem to shake when I hear it. 

In pop culture, the grandeurs of that era are now mainstream gold for producers and storytellers alike, as the pageantry of pre-recession lifestyles have turned into the backbone of television dramas like "Boardwalk Empire" and films like the recently released Gatsby adaptation.  

Free n Losh's "Where Do They Go" is a derivative of that vein, combining the charms of this period with the modern flair of "trap music." (In case you need a primer on trap music, Urban Dictionary usually does a good job of filling the gaps.)

In summation, it's highly effective "get stuff done" tuneage; the type of track that's bumpable in any office setting because it doesn't hold any obscenities that might make your co-workers nervous, and it carries enough "cool" that your square comrades might even take you for having a "hip" bone. 

Enjoy. 

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Words from Penelope Trunk's piece in Quartz "If You Want to Succeed, Start a Company Instead of Writing a Resume." 

"I could write a post ten thousand paragraphs long of all the new things people with nonlinear work histories are doing to get jobs.

People use Twitter as a resume, according to the Wall Street Journal, which requires only that you publish ideas, not any sort of academic experience.

Young people are selling stock in themselves—paying out dividends for decades at a time.

Agents represent workers who pick and choose projects that match them rather than signing on for indefinite amounts of time. The Harvard Business Review calls this supertemping. Businessweek calls it going Hollywood.

But here’s the big takeaway. A fundamental shift is taking place, where the path to getting a job is massively circumventing college credentials. And, at the same time, the American public is fed up with the insane debt that college are expecting new grads to take on in order to graduate. (Good essay: How College Ruined My Life.)

If you are not going to school in order to “fit” into the adult world, then why are you going to school? The love of learning, presumably. But school reform pundits are 100% sure that kids will choose to learn if you put no constraints on them. They will just learn what they want. Best example: The MIT program that gave iPads to illiterate kids in Ethiopia, and they taught themselves to use it, program it, and read it in English. No teacher. No curriculum.

The biggest barrier to accepting the radical new nature of the job hunt is the reverberations throughout the rest of life. If you don’t need school for work, and you don’t need school for learning, then all you need school for is so parents can go to work and not worry about taking care of their kids.

It takes bravery to go against the grain. It’s difficult to say that the great learning and the great jobs come from leaning out, doing things in a nonlinear, non standard way, and playing only by the rules that fit your own style for personal learning and growth."

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For those who don't know or rather dismiss cultural milestones that have anything to do with social media, the blue birdy network known as Twitter just turned 7 years old.

In dog years that equates to 49.

I use the metaphor of dog years because in the break neck speed of technology, social fatigue, and years lost refreshing and scrolling, 7 years can feel a whole lot like 49. 

If we took this metaphor a step further, a lot of this dog years stuff makes quite a bit of sense when we shed a light on Twitter's counterparts, i.e. the Googles and FBs.

Google being the oldest would be dead (according to teeny bopper metrics it already is) and Facebook as the rapidly deteriorating middle child would be in a nursing home.

As the youngest of the power three, Twitter by certain accounts, arguably appears to have aged gracefully by comparison to its siblings. 

Introduced foremost to the world as an information aggregator, it's become a communicative essential; and as a marketing platform conceivably more malleable than the cluttered ethos that now constricts Facebook.

7 years ago Twitter focused on the public need of dissemination.

Slowly it made hashtags cultural staples, and @ signs the go-to symbols for contacting people and companies. 

It was an open party, but it was one always built for a wider audience. 

By contrast, FB and Google came up as niche communities, the former built at first on a network of collegiate students, the latter on people who strictly yearned for an efficient Internet search and a better e-mail alternative to Hotmail.

Their struggles with capturing social networking are well-documented and in a fickle mobile marketplace where people go with what's cool, Twitter has survived those pitfalls because it remains based on the principles of offering a fundamental human service rather than cheap thrills. 

Biz's bird child isn’t perfect, but in its middle age it seemingly has more fight rather flight, gracefully remaining relevant in a space where what you did 1 minute ago can seem like a light year. 

(image via The Times)

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New York in the 1960’s.

Dylan on the trailer score. 

And a folk-musican protag tortured by the standard pre-requisite dilemmas that embody the Coen Bros. hero journey. 

Sounds like a swell ride to me. 

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