When it comes to email, I’m extremely anal. I’m a zero inbox kinda guy my inbox is a place for emails to temporarily live before I deal with them. Once they’re dealt with, they either get archived or deleted.

You know, when people ask, “What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take?” they usually mean something exciting like skydiving, moving to Bali to “find yourself,” or starting a business that sells bespoke bowties for dogs. Me? The biggest risk I could take would be watching a movie without knowing how it ends. That’s it. That’s my Everest.

I’m the proud owner of a Platinum Preppy Fountainpen…I can see where this can lead, and well…

The pushback against streaming media, despite many valid points, has some throwing the baby out with the bathwater vibes to it. Particularly around owning physical media; books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records, BluRays, cassettes, floppy disks.

This also means that I own all of my music, play it from a server I control, using storage I control, via a client I’ve written and all of the data is stored on my own infrastructure. I author my own charts and can do as much or as little as I want with the data. I enjoy being able to view my own listening habits and run whatever granular queries I want. I’ve integrated concert tracking with artist pages, I’ve added support for tracking upcoming albums and exposed a calendar subscription.

What does “control” mean, anyway? It means that my content belongs to me. It’s formatted how I want it. I can make sure it’s accessible to everyone. No one can tell me what I can or cannot publish. No one can restrict access to or make people pay for my work. When I want to add a new feature I just do it.