JETLAG RADIO 338 | BENKYO RADIO 338

  • Enrico Sangiuliano & Charlotte de Witte’s “The Age Of Love” Remix [beatportal]

  • Songwriting basics: how to use repetition and variation to create melodic hooks [Computer Music]

  • Native Instruments adds a Picked Nylon option to its Session Guitarist range [Future Music]

  • 66% of Artists Have Experienced Burnout at Least Once, Study Finds [DJ Mag]

  • An Online Archive is Documenting 30 Years of Dance Music History [Mixmag]

  • Tiësto, Karol G pair for what could be producer’s next platinum hit, ‘Don’t Be Shy’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Dillon Francis Teases Brand New Album & Final Single Out Tomorrow [Your EDM]

  • ADE 2021 Hangs in the Balance After Dutch Government’s “Disastrous” COVID-19 Nightlife Restrictions [EDM.com]

  • Azteck & Afrojack Are Going ‘All Night Long’ With Newest Release [EDM Sauce]

  • Medical needs urgent as ever in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover [MSF]

  • MoFi Consensus [August 13th] - JPEG Summer [Modern Finance]

  • VaynerX Presents: Marketing for the Now Episode 26 with Gary Vaynerchuk [GaryVee]

  • A Taliban-run Afghanistan will be less isolated than the West may hope — But no country will feel comfortable with it [The Economist]

  • Managing Star Performers in High-Pressure Situations [Harvard Business Review]

  • Afghanistan crisis: 'Many here will be deeply fearful for their future' [BBC World]

  • China Won’t Have Much Time to Enjoy America’s Misfortune — Afghanistan’s stability is no laughing matter for its biggest neighbor. [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • War over masks deepens in U.S. South where COVID-19 cases are highest [Reuters]

  • Afghans desperate to leave country remain stuck at Kabul airport [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Trying to Assist the Afghan who Saved Me — Twelve years ago, Tahir Luddin helped us both escape after we were kidnapped by the Taliban. Now I am struggling to get his family out of Kabul. [The New Yorker]

  • Apple’s Attempt at Podcast Subscriptions is off to a Messy Start [The Verge]

  • Democrats have finally identified the greatest threat to voting rights — the Supreme Court [Vox]

  • The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to [TechCrunch]

  • Afghans are being evacuated via WhatsApp, Google Forms, or by any means possible — The only hope for many caught by the Taliban takeover is a chaotic and sometimes risky online volunteer response. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Bitcoin to $100,000 and ether to $5,000: Famed investment strategist Lyn Alden explains her bullish predictions for the largest cryptos in 2022, and why there are only 2 altcoins worth watching [Insider]

  • Red Cross sounds vaccines alarm as deaths soar [The Guardian]

  • The Truth About Long Covid Is Complicated. Better Treatment Isn’t. [The New York Times]

  • Top General: No Intel That Afghan Government Would Fall In 11 Days [HuffPost]

  • Delta Has Changed the Pandemic Risk Calculus [The Atlantic]

  • Boo The Astros All You Want, But Cheer For Zack Greinke [FiveThirtyEight]

  • ‘Now is the time where you bend the rules’ — Inside a US Marine veteran’s fight to get his Afghan interpreter to safety [Task & Purpose]

  • With the Taliban now in control, here’s what Afghans are seeing in Kabul [Washington Post]

  • Incendie dans le Var : « Ce feu est hors norme par sa vitesse, son ampleur et sa complexité » [Le Monde]

  • I drove a hydrogen fuel cell electric car. EVs make more sense. [Mashable]

  • Government Scientists Have Made a Fusion Energy Breakthrough [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Josh Gottehimer’s Rebellion was in Trouble from the Start — The New Jersey Democrat doesn’t have the clout to play hardball with Nancy Pelosi over infrastructure bill [The Intercept_]

  • How centuries of strife shaped modern Afghanistan [Nat Geo]

  • Education Department Will Erase $5.8 Billion In Loans For Borrowers With Disabilities [NPR]

  • Air Quality Forecast To Remain Unhealthy In Sacramento Region Through Thursday [CapRadioNews]

  • Femmes arabes dans le piège des images [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Taliban Can—and Can’t—Be Trusted: There’s good news on international terrorism—and bad news on plenty else. [Foreign Policy]

  • The Shattering of Yemen — Why Ending the War Is More Difficult Than Ever [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan and the Real Vietnam Analogy — The war in Vietnam showed the abject failure of nation-building – and the imperial logic behind such efforts. But the U.S. repeated its mistake in Afghanistan. [The Diplomat]

  • Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm [Quanta Magazine]

  • Accueillir des élèves, une tradition — en 1982 avec Ernst Michaelis répondant à des questions. Ce physicien a travaillé sur le synchrocyclotron (SC) et a initié un programme d'amélioration dans les années 70. [CERN_FR]

  • INTERPOL issues global alert as fraudsters target governments with COVID-19 vaccine scams [INTERPOL]

  • Jumper: Time for ‘a New Reckoning’ on Air and Space Power [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2022 Hyundai Elantra N First Look: Small Sport Sedan, N-gage [MOTORTREND]

  • Here’s what you can do to help Afghan interpreters and refugees — A list of resources you can use to help the more than 70,000 Afghan interpreters and refugees trying to escape the Taliban [Task & Purpose]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 338 & BENKYO RADIO 338.

Creativity takes time. My best recommendation is that you do a little bit every day, and eventually it will be a lot of work.

Until Next Time!