Rough Cuts Ltd Blog

Clarity and preparedness   If I have to travel anywhere new, I'll need plans. No one else's plan's, my own. In my old life, whenever we had meetings, a few members of our management team would always hook up with me. Marc, once told me, the reason he always jumped in with me was because I'd know exactly where the venue was, where the best places to park were likely to be, what time we would have to leave to arrive early, what the hotel was called, what the check in arrangements were and so on. He was right, I am wholly uncomfortable if I do not know any of this. Another colleague I work with now, Ken, has observed I'm very much a details guy. I have to know exactly what to do, I am pretty hopeless with any ambiguity, if it isn't totally clear, I flounder or stop dead in my tracks.  Likewise, with the En suite we're having installed, I have to know exactly, what tiles we're having, what toilet, tap, shower, etc and until that's all decided and written

So last year after buying a fantastic MacBook Air M1 I got a free trial of Apple Music. I let it run it course and during the trial I played around with Lossless, (as well as Dolby Atmos) and was blown away by the difference in quality over my MP3 collection (not Atmos, that sounded rubbish). I've defended MP3 for many years, mostly for the convenience, but this new Lossless, highlighted a new modern way of enjoying music, convenience & having outstanding sound quality too. Just before Christmas, I got another trial and this sold it, I needed this in my life, but infuriatingly most of my streaming music was on Spotify, so, I did a back to back. I dug around and I found out some stuff.  After the Apple Music trial, I found a great deal via PayPal for a three month trial with Spotify, this would allow me to unlock the full HD music Spotify don't let their free customers enjoy, but, it was no use. On the first night it just felt, somehow flat, a little investigation informed m