Wednesday Wrap Up # 10.
Brilliance being born from mistakes, cheap roast beef, and a deep work album.
Brook Slagle • 2023-12-20
yo! it’s brook again.
Welcome to Wednesday Wrap Up # 10.
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on brilliance being born from mistakes:
All great performers have learned this lesson. Top-rate actors often miss a line but improvise their way back on track. The audience rarely notices because of the perfect ease with which the performer glides from troubled waters into the tranquility of the script. Even more impressively, the truly great ones can make the moment work for them, heightening performance with improvisations that shine with immediacy and life. Musicians, actors, athletes, philosophers, scientists, writers understand that brilliant creations are often born of small errors.
~ Josh Waitzkin in The Art of Learning
We often think that every little error is the end of the world.
Why can’t it be the one thing that propels us into greatness?
a recent obsession: cheap roast beef.
I am having a renaissance with my cooking and what I eat. Things that are simpler also taste better, but at the same time it is healthier.
One core tenet of this renaissance is my recent obsession in roast beef.
For some reason, I always staved away from roasting beef - I am not sure why, but I always stuck to pan frying it (unless if it is a chuck roast).
But as of recent, I have been running a tighter budget and have been looking at the round roasts, and other beef roast meat in the sub $6 per pound range.
And I have to say… it’s changed the way I look at beef.
It’s no longer a delicacy to have medium rare whole beef cuts, it’s regular.
Perhaps this musing is off beat, but if you haven’t had top round roast cooked to your liking…. This is your sign to go buy it and cook it!
(it’s probably about $5 per pound - some cheap beef, and it’s not ground beef!)
Left is top round roast, right is tri-tip (found this on a good deal!)
you know that awesome action camera company GoPro?
They released a best-of 2023 video that is a little compilation of the best clips shot on GoPro cameras - it’s a little intense.
spoiler: a kite surfer gets DECKED by a whale
deep work album: Cat by Hiroshi Suzuki
Trombonist Hiroshi Suzuki released “Cat” in 1976. It is a fun, quality jazz album that has been spinning around my wanna-be record player (spotify) on repeat as of late.
It is a certified bop. (it made writing this email incredibly enjoyable)
I know you might not be into jazz, but you might be after this album.
You never know!!
It is the tenth installment of this series.. I have been sending this email every week for ten weeks straight.
That is honestly been a really enjoyable time, and I hope you have been enjoying them.
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As always…
KEEP GOING
B.S.