I don’t stop often to comment but now’s a great time to do so. Thanks Ted for all your great writing. I look forward to it and know I am always in for something that will make me think.
Wow! This map is the map to the hidden treasure of your Substack - thank you! As the mother of a musician, your writing has given me much insight - thank you.
I don't really know where else to say this: it's been really weird and wonderful to discover your writings here, having only recently made the connection that I've been slowly reading your jazz standards book for the last 15 years. Really love both, please keep going!
All of this well-deserved, Ted. It's a real pleasure to see this happen to you, but it doesn't surprise me. Either you take command of your audience, or you collaborate with them. And you've definitely taken command. I can never predict what's coming next from you, and that's what I like! Am watching your Beato interview in half-hour segments. Hope this will be a yearly thing where you two address changes, movements, and the ups and downs of culture during the last 12 months.
One trend we're experiencing over here in Scandinavia, which largely converted its societies to digital platforms overnight, is retraction. School testing results seem to have confirmed that the widespread use of computers in the classroom has had a serious negative effect on students. And guess what's happening - books are coming back big time, there is much less dependence on tablets and laptops in the classroom, smart phones are being banned from schools. And the results so far look very promising.
Looking forward to NOT knowing what's coming next from you!
I love music, have spent, or misspent, years playing professionally, but I also had to have a real job. It's a tough business, and it's even tougher when one has more enthusiasm than talent. That's me! I also work sawing wood, large trees and so on, and running power tools to make wooden objects.
I started going deaf a few years ago, or maybe more than a few, but I compensated by reading lips. Then I started learning American Sign Language, and now I pay close attention to how people use their hands when they are speaking. I watched your Beato interview and I couldn't figure out your gestures - sure, there are Italian roots there (Italy is a great place to watch people gesture as they speak - you don't have to know even a bit of Italian to get the message!), but there was something else going on.
Then I remembered that you are a jazz pianist. Well, that explains a lot. Not all of it, mind you, but I will figure it out, eventually, perhaps when we meet face-to-face. Insert smiley face emoji here.
Anyway, I bought hearing aids and what can I tell you - cicadas are loud!
Now I will go back and click on the links in this post - your writing is brilliant and inspiring. Thanks for letting us tag along in your wake.
Great map! Good to have a link to use as a 'Ted Started Pack' rather than sending my friends random quotes of yours across different articles. Great writer, thank you for all that you do.
New subcriber! I am here after enjoying your refreshing interview with Rick Beato. Rick's awesome btw. I was captivated by the way you spoke. People are hungry for Truth and cultural knowledge that has substance. I am personally bored of watching our world, our culture stagnate. I am bored of reading about how everything is collapsing due to the dumbing down of society. Thank you for being brave to speak the truth in a time where so many are cowards. Your humor helps too. ✌️💜🎼🎸🎧🎹
I don’t stop often to comment but now’s a great time to do so. Thanks Ted for all your great writing. I look forward to it and know I am always in for something that will make me think.
Wow! This map is the map to the hidden treasure of your Substack - thank you! As the mother of a musician, your writing has given me much insight - thank you.
I don't really know where else to say this: it's been really weird and wonderful to discover your writings here, having only recently made the connection that I've been slowly reading your jazz standards book for the last 15 years. Really love both, please keep going!
Mr. Gioia delivers monster value to his readers each month…for less than half the price of a pack of Walmart-brand cigarettes.
So much great stuff. One of my first and still favorite substacks. New ideas to think about every week.
If it ain't broken then don't fix it. By that I mean The Honest Broker, not the media industry, which is very broken.
"I guess I’ll just keep acting as if this is an intimate conversation among friends." The BEST advice, and it comes across in your writing. Thank you!
Thanks for this explainer email!
All of this well-deserved, Ted. It's a real pleasure to see this happen to you, but it doesn't surprise me. Either you take command of your audience, or you collaborate with them. And you've definitely taken command. I can never predict what's coming next from you, and that's what I like! Am watching your Beato interview in half-hour segments. Hope this will be a yearly thing where you two address changes, movements, and the ups and downs of culture during the last 12 months.
One trend we're experiencing over here in Scandinavia, which largely converted its societies to digital platforms overnight, is retraction. School testing results seem to have confirmed that the widespread use of computers in the classroom has had a serious negative effect on students. And guess what's happening - books are coming back big time, there is much less dependence on tablets and laptops in the classroom, smart phones are being banned from schools. And the results so far look very promising.
Looking forward to NOT knowing what's coming next from you!
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Loving what you are doing, Ted. You (and Rick B) are vox populi we so very much need. Keep on keepin’ on…
I love music, have spent, or misspent, years playing professionally, but I also had to have a real job. It's a tough business, and it's even tougher when one has more enthusiasm than talent. That's me! I also work sawing wood, large trees and so on, and running power tools to make wooden objects.
I started going deaf a few years ago, or maybe more than a few, but I compensated by reading lips. Then I started learning American Sign Language, and now I pay close attention to how people use their hands when they are speaking. I watched your Beato interview and I couldn't figure out your gestures - sure, there are Italian roots there (Italy is a great place to watch people gesture as they speak - you don't have to know even a bit of Italian to get the message!), but there was something else going on.
Then I remembered that you are a jazz pianist. Well, that explains a lot. Not all of it, mind you, but I will figure it out, eventually, perhaps when we meet face-to-face. Insert smiley face emoji here.
Anyway, I bought hearing aids and what can I tell you - cicadas are loud!
Now I will go back and click on the links in this post - your writing is brilliant and inspiring. Thanks for letting us tag along in your wake.
Congrats! 🎉You’re a success story in the power of finding one’s unique writing voice and then using it for the greater good. Truly.
Now I must delve into your Eva Cassidy & Nick Drake articles!! 🎶
Met you with the First Rick Beato interview and have been a subscriber since. Loved the new Beato interview, you gave me a lot to think about!
I’m going to have to raid the vault and read some earlier works!!
Great map! Good to have a link to use as a 'Ted Started Pack' rather than sending my friends random quotes of yours across different articles. Great writer, thank you for all that you do.
"I guess I’ll just keep acting as if this is an intimate conversation among friends."
Please do! Thanks. 🙏
New subcriber! I am here after enjoying your refreshing interview with Rick Beato. Rick's awesome btw. I was captivated by the way you spoke. People are hungry for Truth and cultural knowledge that has substance. I am personally bored of watching our world, our culture stagnate. I am bored of reading about how everything is collapsing due to the dumbing down of society. Thank you for being brave to speak the truth in a time where so many are cowards. Your humor helps too. ✌️💜🎼🎸🎧🎹