Show Notes
Shelby Pollard of Black Bobbin is back on the show, and apparently we had some things to work through.
This conversation starts with burnout, work/life balance, phone addiction, and the strange exhaustion that comes from being constantly connected. From there, Blake and Shelby wander into the attention economy, social media’s ability to make everyone else’s life look suspiciously perfect, and why it can be so difficult to simply be happy when somebody else is succeeding.
Eventually, they even talk about guitars.
Shelby explains the philosophy behind Black Bobbin, why his real goal is simply to get people off their phones and playing guitar for fifteen minutes a day, and why gear should remove barriers to inspiration rather than become another endless cycle of consumption.
They also dig into the weird self-deprecation of guitar players, internet criticism, the pressure to turn every creative act into “content,” giving yourself permission to be bad at something, and the simple joy of making music that nobody else ever needs to hear.
Maybe the guitar was fine all along.
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