Since rolling out our new DISCO Libraries feature, our product team has interviewed dozens of supervisors to understand how Libraries can enhance their music discovery process. A recurring question from supes was: “How can we see the newest releases in a library?” Our answer? A flexible but comprehensive albums feature…

On the surface, today was a very average Friday. A series of zoom calls, slacks, food breaks, emails, a quick run around the neighborhood, followed by a long Twitter scroll. On closer examination, today was a miracle! I got to… 1. Zoom travel to living rooms in Jeddah, Barcelona, Rotterdam…

The year is 2060, one of my grandchildren turns to the other: “Did you know that Grandma had to spend 20 years in a building where they showed her presentations about the way the world works before she was allowed to participate in it?” When we accept the fact that…

Algos that send us to blasé AirSpaces… Amazon packages wrapped without strings…. These are a few of my least favorite things… One of the most glaring flaws of the creator economy is its link to self-obsession. In a world that is made to feel like constant chaos, it’s only natural…

“Where is your biggest audience?” “How many followers do you have on _?” are 2 questions I had to answer if I wanted the opportunity to post on a new app called Faves (TikTok for business). I don’t blame this app for using online clout as their barometer for curational…

Brain scans betray our next move 7 seconds before we make it. Data scientists know if we’ll visit an ad before we click it. Microsoft can tell us the optimal time for tomorrow’s lunch before we’ve gone to bed. Alexa can text our perfect mood emoji before we’ve acknowledge our…

It’s no wonder so many kids want to be content creators, when the currency of our age is attention. Fame has allured human kind for aeons, but it’s now been programmed into our psyches. …

My first brush with the music industry was as a tiny 15 year old intern in the very large Sony Tower in New York City. Day 1: Sprinted to 5th avenue to buy La Mer face cream for the girlfriend of an exec. Day 2: Transcribed Future lyrics to Karate…

There’s nothing like a beach all-nighter. Bioluminescent algae recreating the night sky across the sea. Bright white lines of water shooting right and left and then crashing onto shore, scattering the glittering microbeings around my feet. Shooting stars. Warming wet legs at the fire. Mesmerized by the blue base of…