{"id":424,"date":"2009-01-30T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:38:40","slug":"songsmith-and-irrationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Songsmith and irrationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>[display_podcast]<\/h3>\n<p>In this episode I blather about Microsoft Songsmith and the book <em>Predictably Irrational<\/em>.\u00a0 I am a bit out-of-breath at the beginning of the podcast because I was running around the house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Predictably Irrational\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wizardwalk.com\/images\/ariely.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"149\" \/>First, I mention that my short story <em>Oberon&#8217;s Paradise<\/em> has once again been rejected because it&#8217;s such a terrible story.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I respond to comments made on the tech news podcast, TWiT regarding the new music tool from Microsoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/songsmith\/\">Songsmith<\/a>.\u00a0 Songsmith is discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/179\">this episode of TWiT<\/a>.\u00a0 The awkward and cheesy ad for Songsmith is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E\">here on YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0 (It might be purposefully cheesy to be funny, but it&#8217;s still a bit awkward, I think.)\u00a0 An interesting video describing the creation of and research behind Songsmith is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lud6_I04OkQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I talk about the book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006135323X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=006135323X\">Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=006135323X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Dan Ariely.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only read the first two chapters so far, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m going to have to buy the book because it&#8217;s so fascinating and eye-opening for a foolish predictably irrational person like me.\u00a0 I first heard about the book in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mixergy.com\/derek-sivers\/\">this podcast episode<\/a>, an interview with Derek Sivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[display_podcast] In this episode I blather about Microsoft Songsmith and the book Predictably Irrational.\u00a0 I am a bit out-of-breath at the beginning of the podcast because I was running around the house&#8230; First, I mention that my short story Oberon&#8217;s Paradise has once again been rejected because it&#8217;s such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[37,12,36,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-6Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}