Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
We all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Yep - nothing like living through it ;-p
Remind me Often and music
remind me often
Tools and Things that disappoint me
I don’t know how to feel about it this - on one hand it seems interesting and probably more engaging for the kids - yet on the other it feels like another tool that’s creating distance between the humans. The memories of reading to my kids - making up stories for them etc is a treasure - to have it outsourced to an ai just - feels - - weird?!
“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
354 / Design’s reckoning: who really pays?
“Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign.
But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rehumanization: Putting the ‘human’ in human rights
For ages the rich and their sycophants have written in praise of “honest toil,” have praised the simple life, have professed a religion which teaches that the poor are much more likely to go to heaven than the rich, and in general have tried to make manual workers believe that there is some special nobility about altering the position of matter in... See more
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness
Think back …
Way way way back to the early days of web2.0.
Feeds were the new thing and social graphs were open.
Products like Spotify, Yelp and Zynga all leveraged this open social layer to grow massive user bases and billion dollar valuations.... See more
Jesstwitter.com
Tools and Design Input