Lyle Divinsky

The best weekend with the best people 🥂✨
(too many not pictured)

You know the moment.

A few years ago I was living in Maine and I couldn’t stop spinning…

I’d think the same thing six different ways and arrive at the same place every time. The thoughts had nowhere to go. They just looped, and looped, and the longer they looped the louder they got.

One day I picked up my phone and opened Voice Memos while I was walking. I just needed the loop to leave my head, and I wasn’t ready to say it to anyone else. So I hit record. I told the truth about how scared and sad and lost I was. I talked until I had nothing left to say.

Something released. Not the situation. Not the spiral. Just the pressure.

A few days later I listened back…
I didn’t hear someone weak or broken. I heard a friend in need. Someone going through something hard. Someone I felt for the way I’d feel for anyone I loved.

The person on the recording wasn’t me anymore. He was someone I cared about. Someone I could show up for. I started doing it more. Not as a practice. Just because it worked.

I’d spin, I’d record, I’d come back later and meet myself with the kind of grace I’d never been able to extend in real time.

I started moving forward. Not because anything got fixed, but because I stopped being alone with the moments that mattered. I had a witness. Even when the witness was just a future version of me.

I built Tellit because I wanted other people to have what I had stumbled into. A place to put the thing you’re carrying. A way to come back later and meet yourself with the empathy that’s hardest to find in the moment.

That’s how it started.
That’s why it exists.

Something I’ve been carrying for a while.

From Subways to Stadiums to Startups
My first company outside of music is live.
Fully story in the slides.

I spent 20 years putting my creativity into songs. Then a year ago, I picked up a new instrument.

I started learning AI the way I’ve learned everything… by improvising. Through that improvisation, I built something.

Tellit is an audio journal. You talk, it listens, and AI reflects your own patterns back to you. No blank page. No typing. Just your voice.

A year ago I had never seen a line of code. Now my idea is on the App Store.

My albums are apps now. Link in bio.

🎵 → 📱

Back at Cervantes to get down with the homies tonight!

I’m not great at taking photos, but I’m pretty damn good at having a great time with people I love. Needless to say, Maine served up a truly top-tier week with and the whole fam-damily ✨🦞

We asked… you responded! This was one of ’s first regular gigs at the Ale House in Portland, Maine—every Sunday night during the dead of winter 2004-5—and proof that was originally on guitar, and that I loved wearing sweatpants on stage. We’d make just enough money to take us and one lucky friend to Denny’s. It was magic ✨

Thank you to the OG Debby Remillard for these, and see you all at Funksgiving!!