Alex White

@alexanderswhite

I love music that gets stuck in my head, movies that make me think, personal productivity & efficiency hacks, the last block of a long run, really talking to people, and constant self-improvement. I burn through recommended books on psychology, economics, business management, science, current events, and history.

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Work, Life, and Fun is a flywheel not a balance

Joseph Jude jjude.com

For more than twenty-five years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been universally regarded as the definitive guide to the music industry. Now in its tenth edition, Donald Passman leads novices and experts alike through what has been the most profound change in the music business since the days of wax cylinders and piano rolls. For... See more

Simon and Schuster • Donald S. Passman - Author & Lawyer - All You Need to Know About the Music Business

Life Is Not Short | DKB Show

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Stoicism

Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation

Marc Fisher • 1 highlight

amazon.com

Cover of Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation

Music Industry

When Baking and Real Estate Collide

The New Yorker newyorker.com

urban planning and Gentrification

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

John Seabrook • 1 highlight

johnseabrook.com

Music Industry

But it’s also incredibly lonely. And gruelling. And slow.

Avni Patel Thompson • ✨ Future Distortion Field

Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can’t get on—and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What now?

dean budnick • Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and Ho…

Novel infrastructure often enables new software. We refer to each wave by its architecture advance: internet, mobile, cloud, data lake, single-page apps, containers, serverless.At some point, startups tinker enough with the new technology to discover the applications customers value most. Then the infrastructure innovations disappear beneath the de... See more