Sublime

Algorithmic taste, in Peter’s case as a consumer, was both boring and alienating. On the creator side, by contrast, ubiquity can be profitable.

jeremiad,

What Netflix and Spotify both did was dress up this obviously better consumer experience with an interface and a proposition that was (1) legal and (2) worth paying for in big chunks. And we all did.

Accumulating books was his way of interacting with the world, of building a worldview that he furthered in his critical writing.

episodes to achieve syndication—eighty-eight or more, give or take. So our television business model is not to make thirteen episodes that are half an hour long but to make over a hundred episodes that are basically twenty-one minutes long.

In many cases, neither side is happy with what is getting promoted.

He read Ask the Dust by John Fante—an L.A. novel he had never heard of—which his assistant got from the public library downtown—and finally found what he was looking for: “I just knew that was the way those kids talked to each other—the rhythms, cadences, racism.”