Ilya Sutskever and Kashmir Hill are somehow OK.
The rest is quite a mess.
PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles
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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.
Exactly. You can be unique and non-conformist in some ways, but not in all of them at the same time.
Yeah, but look at those tastes
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#53So 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.
How does liking music make someone a “conformist”? I don’t know anyone who thinks, “I need to make sure my music taste conforms to societal norms.” People add songs to their playlists because they like them.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Exactly. You can be unique and non-conformist in some ways, but not in all of them at the same time.
You two raise good points.
I guess I'm probably a bit of a conformist in most areas I don't really care about, for example: cars and clothing. My tastes are probably average, but only because I don't much care for those things as much.
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> not being “mainstream” people They're politicians, CEOs and "celebrities" (in one way or another), it doesn't get more mainstream than that, does it?
They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. You can be unique and non-conformist in some ways, but not in all of them at the same time.
You two raise good points. I guess I'm probably a bit of a conformist in most areas I don't really care about, for example: cars and clothing. My tastes are probably average, but only because I don't much care for those things as much.
Yup, me too. It's all about choosing one's battles / one's struggle.