Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. Nabi Tajima has died at the grand old age of 117. Imagining how the world changed over the course of her lifetime is rather mind blowing! — The last living human link to the 19th century is gone

2. A collection of aerial images of Britain from the last 100 years. Here's my hometown, Ipswich.

3. Stephen Fry has a podcast! His episode on the Guttenberg press was fascinating.

4. I'm really looking forward to watching the new series of Westworld (the last one was great). Food for thought in this piece by Sam Harris and Paul Bloom: It’s Westworld. What’s Wrong With Cruelty to Robots?

5. I've just discovered Jean-Michel Blais' music. I love this performance of his song Nostos. Oh how I wish I could play piano like that!

That's all for this week. If you enjoyed it, subscribe and you'll get the next one delivered to your inbox.

My drumming has made it onto vinyl for the first time! Well, I think it's the first time... If it has happened before I don't know about it!

I'm so happy to have played a part in the making of this album by Matt Cade. He's a lovely chap and it was a cool project to be involved in.

When I have information on where you can listen to the album I'll let you know.

Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. The language you speak influences the way you perceive colours: "learning a new language is like giving our brain the ability to interpret the world differently—including the way we see and process colors."

2. My new favourite Instagram: Things Organized Neatly.

3. The teacher that couldn't read. Fear is a powerful motivator.

4. All-white paintings are a thing? An expensive thing?!

5. Kendrick Lamar is now not only "the best musician of the 21st Century" but also a Pulitzer Prize winner for his latest album DAMN. (warning: Spotify rates the lyrics Explicit).

That's all for this week. If you enjoyed it, subscribe and you'll get the next one delivered to your inbox.

Every Wednesday I share five things I've liked and think you might like too. Here are this week’s Five Things…

1. An interesting interview with the cartoonist and musician James Kochalka on being creative. Here's the video and my takeaways from watching it.

2. As well as being tiny, some viruses are rather scary looking!

3. Another fascinating episode of the After-On podcast where Rob Reid interviews George Church. They talk about DNA sequencing and editing, clean meat, anti-ageing research and much more.

4. Derek Sivers on goals: Detailed dreams blind you to new means

5. A magical musical moment from the Rock School I'm running this week. We get to work with some fantastic kids, so inspiring!

That's all for this week. If you enjoyed it, subscribe and you'll get the next one delivered to your inbox.

I had two main takeaways from watching this interview with the cartoonist and musician James Kochalka.

The first:

"If you are a creative person and you're good at one thing you're probably good at another thing"

Creativity compounds (knowledge builds on knowledge) so you'll probably find that some ways of thinking or skills overlap between the different activities.

And the second:

If you want to get better at something, do it every day, and work hard at getting better at it. That last bit is really important, simply repeating an activity isn't enough — you have to focus on improving to get better.