We all decided after recording this episode that we probably should have said more nice things about the classic TiVo remote, which was a true thing of beauty. But we all have our favorites! Plus, don’t miss Nothing CEO Carl Pei talking about phones, glasses, and the hopefully-very-exciting future of gadgets.
Our friends over at the MKBHD Studio tried to figure out exactly that, and came back with a super fun (and delightfully chaotic) video. Watch this one with the best headphones you have, it’s pretty wild how aggressive the audio AI tools are getting!
Nothing wants to invent the future. But you don’t get to invent the future if you can’t first make it in the smartphone biz.
This story (which I found via the excellent Sunday Long Read newsletter) is mostly about the way the producer Jack Antonoff has changed music over the last decade. But it also has maybe my favorite description ever of how Spotify has changed music:
“We’re not in the music space,” Spotify’s chief executive announced several years ago; “we’re in the moment space.” This statement encapsulates how the streaming giant sees itself: as a dispenser of a quasi-therapeutic soundtrack for mood enhancement and regulation. This is a vision of music not as art or even as commodity, but as something like audio furniture. Mood is the object; sound is beside the point.
[The Drift]
Lots to discuss this week, but no time to get into it all — we’re on a Chroma-fast. Don’t steal our idea, Goop!
