Can an app revive acquaintanceship?
Creating ways to connect with listeners could offer Spotify a way to combat the enduring narrative that it’s screwing over musicians.
Josh Constine • Spotify's missing money-maker is artist-to-fan messaging
Scheduled Zoom calls, utilitarian Slack threads, and endless email chains don’t capture the thrill of surprise or the joy of conversation that giddily revs up as people riff off each other’s ideas. But smart app developers are also realizing that spontaneity doesn’t mean constantly interrupting people’s life or workflow. They give people the power ... See more
Techcrunch • Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while con
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