Cam Jones

When your ideas, interests, and even daily meals are largely inspired by whatever was already approved, already done, already voted on and liked, you’re only experiencing life as an echo of the masses (or the machines, if personalized based on historic preference). And in this echo chamber, genuine discovery is rare, even radical.

We've been here before. The symptoms repeat across time with eerie consistency. Politics feels paralyzed—parties fight but solve nothing. Leaders are reactive, never visionary. Jobs become transactional hell. Work becomes about survival, not meaning. The news is background static—constant crisis with no resolution. Everything feels heavy and gray... See more

Spotify’s current incentives indicate that they’ll continue moving away from promoting human-made (and thus independently owned) music and toward anonymous first-party (and, inevitably, AI-generated) background music. As the most widely used music streaming platform gradually transforms into an AI white noise company, where does that leave recorded... See more

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