Ian Edgar

2025: As Good As It Got

Happy New Year. I get later and later every year with these - but here they are - my favourite songs released in 2025.
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Surf's Up 1967 - Solo Version/The Smile Sessions Version The Beach Boys · The Smile Sessions · Song · 2011

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They might be quite curious about the thing you were showing it to them on.

I don't know why I need to say this. If you say "tenants" instead of "tenets", you may as well, for me, be calling blueberries "booberries". If you pronounce the ends of the words biases or processes with an "ees" sound, you may as well, for me, be saying "to all intensive purposes".

Sheesh, blurgh, oop.

Bob the Pope

Division is the product. Don't buy it.

YouTube, at 20, Has Hosted 20 Trillion Videos and Launched Superstars. It Wants More—Including Some Prestige Inside the platform that gave us ‘Hot Ones,’ Michelle Khare, ‘Chicken Shop Date,’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’—not to mention Justin Bieber and MrBeast—as it embraces bingeability and more.

YouTube does not host 20 trillion videos. It'll be something closer to 20 billion. 20 trillion would mean 2.74 billion videos uploaded every day since 2005. Numbers matter.

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Profitable, Original Cinema Not horror. Not "IP" in the broadest sense.

It’s weirdly hard to find information on profitable (at the box office) recent films which aren’t horror or, in the broadest sense, “IP”, so I made this list. Would welcome any notable additions. letterboxd.com/cutswift/lis...

I no longer know who my Customer Success Manager is. I wonder if my Customer Success Manager is looking for me.

The brief is supposed to be the floor, but it’s become the ceiling - Dave Trott

MORE GANYMEDE NOW! I DEMAND IT!

How close are the HQ rip dates and streaming dates? Where have you seen the biggest gaps and do those seem to be closing?

myfaveTT - backup all your Likes and Followings from TikTok "Download to a local folder, and keep it synced with your tiktok account."

If you're in the U.S. and ever used TikTok, you should download all your liked/faved videos locally before it's shut down on Sunday. This free Chrome extension creates a local static HTML/MP4 archive with video metadata. myfavett.com

This is so true. Why is no-one talking about this?

Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by Derek Thompson

2024: As Good As It Got Playlist · Ian Edgar · 57 items

Every year I listen to a lot of new music. Every year, I put together a playlist. Here it is. open.spotify.com/playlist/6If...

Four Principles: 1. Clarity On Clarity, Structure, Insights & Elevations.

I'm writing a series on four fundamentals of making successful formats. screentheories.substack.com/p/four-princ...

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experien… The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated trea…

Recommended: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience - Francisco Varela www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...