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Welcome to Circles In Space. Glad to have you aboard!

Every Friday I publish Five Bullets on what’s capturing my attention, including books, creativity, history, music and more.

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What is Circles In Space?

Have you ever heard a song but only connected with it years later?

Or found a book has new meaning at different stages of your life?

The reason is rediscovering ideas engages our creative spirit.

That’s Circles In Space.

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Check out the Five Bullets archive here.

Below find deep dives on books, creativity, history, music, writing and more.

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Books:

• 10 Favorite Books of 2025.

• Shackleton’s List.

• The Search for Shackleton’s ship.

• High-Rise: Surrealist Dystopia.

• Childhood’s End: The Stars Are Not For Man.

• Roadside Picnic: If We Know Aliens Exist But We Don’t Change, Are We Intelligent?

• Exploring Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

• The Haunting.

Circles In Space:

• 2025: Year In Review.

• Notes Worksheet For Focused Creativity.

• Circles In Space Zine.

• Mission Statement: The Ideas Behind Circles In Space.

• June 2025 Updates.

• Zine 001 - Coming Soon.

• September 2024 Updates.

• June 2024 Updates.

Creativity:

• 25 Quotes I saved in my commonplace book in 2025.

• Walking & Wandering: (How To) Be A Tourist In My Own City.

• 8 Ways To Stay Objective For Creatives.

• The Bad Plus Drummer’s Lessons On Jazz and Creativity.

• Are Running & Drumming Related?.

• Tchad Blake’s Lessons on Creativity.

• On Songwriting & Creativity.

Field Recordings:

• Field Recording 002: Makaya McCraven, New York.

• Field Recording 001: Maria Hernandez Park, Brooklyn.

Music:

• My 10 Favorite Albums in 2025.

• 10 Gift Ideas For Drummers.

• Why I Still Use An iPod.

• CDs In My Car.

• Velvet Sundown: Real Band or Spotify AI?

• Nils Frahm Brings Neo-Classical to Brooklyn.

• What’s Louis Cole Listening To?

• Lett Us Resonate.

• Chris Dave at Blue Note.

• Notes With Attachments.

• How To Make a DIY Percussion Shaker.

• Making Music on the Longest Day of the Year.

New York City:

• On New York City’s Future.

• I Was in 7th grade on 9/11.

• Fort Tilden: A Short History.

• Edgar Allen Poe in New York City.

• Barren Island: New York City’s Forgotten Island.

• New Yorkers: Share Your Story!

Writing:

• Why Write?

• Notes From a Writing Workshop.

• How To Take Book Notes: Three steps to turn your book notes into writing.

• 5 Tips For Keeping A Daily Journal: Kickstart your journaling practice with these daily writing tips.

• C.S. Lewis’s Advice to a Young Writer.

• Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer.

• Walter Isaacson’s Writing Tips.

• On Writing a Newsletter.

• Tim Ferris: Tips for Engaging Interviews.

More:

• EDC: What’s In My Backpack?

• Movies: Sunshine.

Hope To See You Soon!

-Keith