{"id":1575,"date":"2020-04-29T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:31:50","slug":"ten-albums-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/04\/ten-albums-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Albums – (#4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things would have been very different when I started working as an undergraduate at Telstra, if it weren’t for my boss at the time – a brilliant bloke named John. He was technically capable without being nerdy, politically savvy without being a politician, and a strategic thinker and genuinely pastoral person. He worked hard to ensure I was eased into big business culture, drawing diagrams of who’s-who for me during meetings, explaining the ad-hocracy, and showing a genuine interest in the things I cared about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He overheard me listening to some Beethoven while writing a report, and struck up a conversation about the best kinds of music to listen to when working, and the way mathematics, philosophy, and art interact, and GEB<\/a>, which I’d just read. The next day he handed me a CD, and recommended tracks 4-6 – Sonata in D for Two Pianos K3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rest of the day flew by in a pleasant, hyper-productive blur. I still put Mozart’s Music for Two Pianos<\/a> on when I need a burst of focus, and seem to have infected at least one of my daughters with the same idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things would have been very different when I started working as an undergraduate at Telstra, if it weren’t for my boss at the time – a brilliant bloke named John. He was technically capable without being nerdy, politically savvy without being a politician, and a strategic thinker and genuinely pastoral person. He worked hard to… Continue reading Ten Albums – (#4)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}