# Intrusive Thoughts: April 6, 2025

*Things on my mind. Things I can't get off my mind.*

By [Black Dave Energy](https://paragraph.com/@blackdave) · 2025-04-07

random, thoughts

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_Intrusive Thoughts_ is a weekly series where I'll just drop some bullet points of what's on my mind every Sunday. Not sure how this will go or how _long_ this will go but it feels fun to not have to go into exhaustive detail about what I'm thinking.

*   I finished The Artist’s Way 2 weeks ago and have not made my masterpiece yet. When does it come?
    
*   I’ve listened to Nokia 1.5 times (watched the video once and clips on social media) and somehow it’s been stuck in my head.
    
*   There really aren’t enough formal music collectives. I wonder if collectives would be able to infuse the right amount of energy in these times
    
*   Dreamville was smart heavily marketing this as the last Dreamville Fest knowing they were just gonna partner with the state on another festival for the next few years.
    
*   I don’t have enough secret side projects. Burner accounts are freeing, I imagine secret side projects feel the same.
    
*   Sometimes you gotta change the packaging of a good idea in order to get folks to see it
    
*   Hot take but I’m one of the most important people in web3 music of the last 5 years.
    
*   “Doing the most with the least” is a personal motto but I would love to do the most with the most one of these days.
    
*   AI has been really helping to put me back into my pre-web3 level of creativity and output.
    
*   I’ve been trying to become less obsessed with incessantly working and this middle space of feeling like you’re not doing enough while knowing you shouldn’t do too much is awkward.
    
*   I know some really fucking cool people.

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*Originally published on [Black Dave Energy](https://paragraph.com/@blackdave/intrustivethoughts-20250606)*