The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Musician

For almost 35 years, I’ve had opportunities to collaborate with many talented musicians, singers, and songwriters — as a bassist, songwriter, and producer. I love working with others and bringing out their best.

Blog

Here’s where you’ll find my random musings about making music, making gear work properly, getting organized and being productive, leadership and management, and more.

Geek Wrangler

Like a lot of working semi-pro musicians, I have a day hustle. Mine’s pretty great — building, enabling, and serving incredible teams of software engineers as a director of global software engineering at Red Hat.

Leg Sleeve vs. Cone of Shame

A common injury in active dogs, especially certain breeds, is tearing of the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL), analogous to the human ACL. During recovery it's critical to keep your dog...
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Portability for Elektron.

I'm a recent migrant to the Elektron ecosystem -- my Digitakt II and Digitone II have inspired me to make music since I got them. While they don't replace my...
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Moving Mastodon accounts.

Unfortunately my previous Mastodon server, lor.sh, is shutting down soon. Today I moved it to a new home on musicians.today. Fortunately moving Mastodon accounts turned out to be very easy....
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