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Joe Conyers III is Vice President of Technology for Downtown Music Publishing, where he oversees their digital, application and technology strategy. He will be speaking at Music 4.5: Blockchain and...
I was interviewed by 4PT5 on the importance of a distributed system for music blockchain.
Ryan Adams Covering Taylor on Spotify? How is he allowed to do that?
Since some of you are asking: How come Ryan Adam's covers of Taylor's album can be on Spotify even though she pulled her music? 17 U.S. Code § 115. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/115)
Taylor pulled her rights as an Artist from Spotify. However other artists are allowed to create and release a cover (and streaming services are allowed to put it up) so long as they get a mechanical license or send them a compulsory request for one in the mail. (or use a service that can do this for you like Loudr.fm)
So go forth and do your Prince covers, just remember to send him a letter in the mail. (and enjoy Ryan’s smooth covers: https://open.spotify.com/album/5xbvoXZzItW2cuR1m2Cw7N)
The San Francisco bagel famine broke for a short time in 2011, when four former Dartmouth students started an outfit called Schmendricks. (The name means ‘‘stupid person’’ in Yiddish.) They decided to follow tech start-up protocol — ‘‘to A/B test our way to a perfect bagel,’’ says Dan Scholnick, one of the schmendricks who not at all stupidly kept his day job as a venture capitalist. By November 2011 they had a product ready to take to beta. So Schmendricks posted an announcement on Facebook and Twitter and placed a sign in front of Faye’s Video and Espresso Bar, across the street from Bi-Rite Market, a sort of Dean & DeLuca of San Francisco. Then, on the appointed morning, they showed up with four dozen bagels — and found a line stretching down the block. The bagel columnist for J., a Northern California Jewish weekly, described the product as ‘‘everything you could ever want.’’ But the glory didn’t last. Before Schmendricks opened a storefront, its bagel disappeared. ‘‘We were never going to grow the way a top-tier tech company is going to grow,’’ Scholnick told me, stating the obvious. Besides, after months of hand-rolling, Schmendricks’ primary baker discovered she had a gluten intolerance.
Why Is It So Hard to Get a Great Bagel in California? - The New York Times
Everything I hate about SF in a single paragraph. Pure gold.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
When a watch beats a phone
I have been using an Apple Watch for the past month. I thought I wouldn’t care for it since I adore mechanical watches.
The iPhone is easily my favorite consumer product of all time. It’s hard to describe how much of an impact it has brought and continues to deliver on a daily basis.
But there are times when a watch beats a phone. In my personal experience here are the experiences when that is true:
-Apple Passport. Using your wrist for TSA and to board a plane is amazing.
-Maps. Getting turn by turn notifications and physical taps on your wrist feels so natural and helpful.
-Receiving txt messages and responding with brief preset messages or emoji is a huge improvement.
-Siri on Apple Watch beats Siri on my phone. No idea why but I use Siri a ton more
-Controlling music. I listen to music every day on my phone. Being able to skip a track, control the audio and see the artist and song information on my wrist is great.
-Foursquare notifications. Getting push notification when I am walking near a restaurant or into a restaurant with a tip feels truly magical.
-Fitness stuff. No brainier. Little watch is way better than dealing with a big honking phone on a run.
-Telling the time :)
And for a first generation product, that ain’t bad.
Mirrors my thoughts almost exactly. + 1 for Passbook for sporting events too.
I have a feature request that I think will hopefully be in Watch OS2
-Temperature on default glance: Really wish I could get a small indicator for precipitation vs having to give up the next calendar item.
America’s business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business. At Apple, we are in business to empower and enrich our customers’ lives. We strive to do business in a way that is just and fair. That’s why, on behalf of Apple, I’m standing up to oppose this new wave of legislation — wherever it emerges.
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks out against discriminatory “religious freedom” laws (via theverge)
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"Stock prices will always be far more volatile than cash-equivalent holdings. Over the long term, however, currency-denominated instruments are riskier investments – far riskier investments – than widely-diversified stock portfolios that are bought over time and that are owned in a manner invoking only token fees and commissions. That lesson has not customarily been taught in business schools, where volatility is almost universally used as a proxy for risk. Though this pedagogic assumption makes for easy teaching, it is dead wrong: Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.”
Warren Buffet 2014 letter to shareholders (via caterpillarcowboy)
There is room for mistakes. They can and will happen.
There is room for change. It’s healthy and necessary.
There is room for failure. You can’t always win, but you can always learn when you fail.
There is room for struggling. You won’t always have exactly what you need when you need it, but it…
My hunch is that The Blockchain will be to banking, law and accountancy as The Internet was to media, commerce and advertising.
Joi Ito Why Bitcoin is and isn’t like the Internet | Joichi Ito | LinkedIn (via fred-wilson)
So a story in Businessweek caught my eye the other day. It discussed NYC taxi rider tipping habits and concluded that riders usually tip between 20% and 25% using the histogram below:
Their plot showed bumps at 20%, 25% and 30%, the default tip options on the credit card...
So here you go. Eight minutes of reading about reading. These are the tricks that work for me. Thanks to my boss Pedro for reminding me to finally write this.
My Reading Habits — Rick Webb — Medium
Wrote a piece on medium about my reading habits, tips and tricks.
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Some great advice from Mr. Webb, who has his own book out now.
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SOON.
Microsoft’s next surprise is free Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android
Starting today, you’ll no longer need an Office 365 subscription to edit documents or store them in the cloud. The move comes just days after Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with Dropbox to integrate the cloud storage service into Office across desktop, mobile, and the web. You can now download Office for iPad and store all your documents on Dropbox without paying Microsoft anything at all. Microsoft is also releasing a brand new iPhone app today, alongside a preview of Office for Android tablets, all with Dropbox integration.
Software is free again. Just like in the 80's.
What I learned from: Edward Tufte's Presenting Data and Information Course
My parents took this course in the 90's. I picked up the book off their shelf at some point and had a few epiphanies. Yesterday I finally got the chance to take his one day course.
Tufte is an elder statesman of design with being a true futurist, someone who reassures us that we've come a long way but have so much longer to go.
If you have a chance to take this course I highly recommend it. If you can't make it the boots are also a field guide to creating great visual works and understanding how to better digest and present information.
A few of the highlights:
500 Year old Euclid manuscript.
Viz-O-Matic (Always a fan of the corny presentation breakup joke, reminds me of the Turbo Encabulator, my father loves to drop in his presentations to engineers)
The genius idea of managing your doctors like you would a business meeting (i.e. show up with a presentation of your questions and issues).
A reminder of how underrated spark-lines are. He's been scratching the surface of a new evolution of this concept with waves and video here using Ultra HD, excited to see what comes of this work.
A presentation is a content experience, not a presentation or design experience. Design cannot save your content. Maximize for understanding.
Since iOS 8, the Apple gods have given permission to choose a different keyboard when communicating. [Android has had this for a while but Apple fanboys didnt notice]
There are some fun ones like Emojiyo and Scribble Board
Even some useful ones like Clips and Goji
Its still a pain...
My watch is the only watch I’m excited about today. Call me a curmudgeon, but we look at too many screens and, already, get too many things vying for our attention. A wearable screen ready to distract us? Does that make us more present, or less? My iPhone has been my wearable since 2007. I wear it in my pocket. Do I really need another screen and another wearable?
Wearing a watch past today is going to be a different, important kind of mannerism. This is going to be a big moment for everyone in conscious disconnecting. This is more than not putting your phone on the table at dinner, it's a going to be a statement from now on.
(By the way Jay, gorgeous watch - I'm an Omega fan & caretaker myself.)