Friday music & past week in music.

What a week it's been in music. It's seriously been one of the best weeks in music for me since, well, pretty much ever? Radiohead dropping their 9th album 'A Moon Shaped Pool', Kaytranada dropped his debut album 99.9% as well as JMSN's 'It is.' and Anthony released her first album under her ANOHNI moniker. The new Death Grips' 'Bottomless Pit' was rated a 9 by Deathony Griptano in his 20 minute lovesong review. A new Skepta album, and a new DJ Koze album with tracks by Gold Panda, Jamie XX, Mount Kimbie and Roman Flügel amongst others. If that all wasn't enough, Moderat debuted their 2 hour BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (which was fucking epic) and episode 21 of OVOSOUND Radio has been pretty much on repeat. (Yeah, I actually have to listen to multiple things at once to digest all this awesomeness.) No, I didn't forget Drake's Views. 

Enjoy. 

Pitchfork: James Blake and the Persuit of Happiness

Following the release of his third album, the singer talks about collaborating with Frank Ocean, showing up late for a meeting with Kanye, and moving past the gloom that has defined him thus far.

A lenghty interview with one of my favourite experimental, gloomy, minimal electronic artists James Blake. Loved this. Read the article on Pitchfork

TED-Ed: What is depression?

Helen M. Farrell explores symptoms and treatments of depression in this short TED-Ed lesson. The animated video 'subtly' references 'The Black Dog' in it. If you're new to the Black Dog, it's worth a watch to get a greater understanding of what depression means or what its effects are. The WHO reports that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and Simon Sinek recently stated 'Generation Z' is more like 'Generation D' since it has the highest rates of depression of any generation before.

Find out more about the symptoms of depression at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Hit me up if you want to talk about it or if you need help talking to someone about it, read this TED Ed Blog Post: How do you talk about depression? The good news is, it's very treatable nowadays.

Resources: Free online courses.

How about 'Game design' by Philip B. Tan & Jason Begy from MIT. As a frequent offline gamer this one seems super fun! 

This course provides practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-digital games. Students cover the texts, tools, references and historical context to analyze and compare game designs across a variety of genres, including sports, game shows, games of chance, card games, schoolyard games, board games, and role–playing games.

Or, this Stanford course on 'How to start a Start-up' by Sam Altman. You know, for when his Start-up playbook wasn't enough for you. ;-)

Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.

This collection is designed to be a sort of one-class business course for people who want to start startups.

We cover how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more.

Maybe you want to improve on your public speaking skills? Missouri State University got your back with Gary Phillips' 'Fundamentals of Public Speaking', a skill that never misstands anyone in business. 

Instruction and practice in researching, composing, and delivering formal and informal speeches in a variety of public contexts. In the Game format speakers develop more complex communication skills as they work up through the levels of the game, from citizen, to voter, to candidate and senator. 

But if none of this is your game, there might be something in the 1147 other free courses you can find here. Unfortunately, there is no course to magically create time out of nothing.

The Startup Playbook by Sam Altman.

We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies.

Then we thought we should just give it to everyone.

This is meant for people new to the world of startups. Most of this will not be new to people who have read a lot of what YC partners have written—the goal is to get it into one place.

A generous share of insights and advice from team Y Combinator, shared by Y Combinators president Sam Altman. A very interesting read, but if you're not much of a reader, here are 62 bite-sized nuggets of advice from TechCrunch.