Music Discovery and Distribution
I’ve had a number of conversations over the past few weeks with established and emergent talent in the music management business. Most of them started with thinking about how people discover new bands or new types of music, and how those processes relate to the more abstract notions of brand. All of this was made [...]
Facebook Is The New MTV
Music is the original social network. Long before the printing press and written books, stories were carried in song, across generations and long distances. Even today, listening to the chazzan during a Shabbat service, I can make some guesses as to his or her age, seminary experience, and position on the reform-to-orthodox spectrum within three [...]
Formative Economics
I’m a big believer in formative economics – the process of bootstrapping a network of consumers, producers and markets where there is little infrastructure. We are often quick to send money; it’s what my daughter Elana calls the “good intentions of the muzungu“ (Kinyarwanda for “white person”, in a purely descriptive way) to give money [...]
Hitting The Long Clubs
This is a golf story that’s also not a golf story. I was lucky enough to be able to play golf very frequently this summer. Like at least three days a week on the practice range, and about once a week on a county course with my father. It was the best form of work [...]