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PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles
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#22These are the most basic bitch playlists I've seen in my life. No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.
> No wonder the Spotify algorithm is so shit.
I guess you get what you play, none of those songs are recommended to me, and my Discover Weekly has maybe ~75% of music I like which is high enough to be useful for finding new stuff. But then I have been using Spotify for almost 20 years, might be why they're a bit better at recommending me music.
But then you also consider other people's music taste "basic" so we already know you're a bit of a elitist music snob, no wonder recommendations don't work for you :)
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#23How can we verify that these playlists are legit? I love the idea that JD Vance is listening to Justin Bieber and One Direction, but I’d like some more proof.
> How can we verify that these playlists are legit?
Even if they are "legit", we don't know it's actually them who listened to it. I'm in the car with other people plenty of times, and listen to music I'm not a huge fan of but others are. I'm sure I'm not alone in not being 100% exclusive listener to the music my Spotify account ends up playing.
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#24Looks like any old radio station. Is that down to Spotify suggesting whatever is popular, or people having ordinary tastes?
I read an article claiming that repetition causes popularity, not the other way round. Can't for the life of me find the link, maybe someone knows what I mean.
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#25Looks like any old radio station. Is that down to Spotify suggesting whatever is popular, or people having ordinary tastes? I read an article claiming that repetition causes popularity, not the other way round. Can't for the life of me find the link, maybe someone knows what I mean.
> Is that down to Spotify suggesting whatever is popular, or people having ordinary tastes?
I think it's the typical "average stuff for the average person", people generally don't care that much about what music is playing, as long as it's within the range of "average" and it's catchy enough. Basically open up the player, play the first thing that looks good enough and then leave it there.
Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :)
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#26So the lesson is that one must become ultra-normie in music taste before one becomes a founder? I'm waiting for the PG essay to explain this.
Not to be too sarcastic, but it always kills me when people who pride themselves as being original and contrarian turn out to be total conformists. This seems to be very common among founders/vc’s as of late.
On the other hand, it kills me when people think having a unique taste in music is representative of anything other than having a unique taste in music (i.e. that one's taste in music has anything to do with being original or contrarian).
It seems sensible to me that the people who spend a lot of time doing something like creating a successful business do not spend much of their time curating a unique taste in music.
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#27So the lesson is that one must become ultra-normie in music taste before one becomes a founder? I'm waiting for the PG essay to explain this.
Mass appeal has mass appeal, apparently.
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#28https://open.spotify.com/user/1225726127
That is not Vitalik...
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#29This is so disappointing. Man these people are basic
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#30So the lesson is that one must become ultra-normie in music taste before one becomes a founder? I'm waiting for the PG essay to explain this.
Not to be too sarcastic, but it always kills me when people who pride themselves as being original and contrarian turn out to be total conformists. This seems to be very common among founders/vc’s as of late.
Everyone's just playing a bunch of investor signaling games, because founders/VCs by nature are living in the world of finance, not the world of decision-making (at least in their public personas). It's part of why I opted out of that whole world when founding my own company. Not literally so that I can listen to my angsty 13-year-old Christian rock without answering to anyone (although I certainly do do that), but because I feel like that fear colors a whole lot of what gets done in tech these days.
Engineers very often tell me something like "well I have this idea but I don't think anyone will fund it" and - well, just build it, man! Your idea takes like two grand of startup capital, and I know for a fact you made 240k last year. There's this whole mythologized idea of founders as a separate breed, encouraged in no small amount by founders themselves, but...founding a company is literally just building a thing people want and selling it to them. You can wear clown shoes and do that.