This podcast episode discusses how people in the database industry had to think about how to move money around effectively which is similar to music makers who have to understand how their music reaches a wider audience more effectively.
The importance of building a personal brand and promoting oneself through content, showcasing creativity in a way that aligns with the heart and generating revenue as a freestyle rapper facing challenges with the music industry machine.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaks about the original meaning of folk and popular music, and the importance of creativity and making stuff for yourself, rather than trying to become a superstar.
A musician discusses the importance of engaging with new music for neural plasticity and forming new neural pathways in the brain, encouraging listeners to keep an open mind and embrace change.
Derrick Sivers, founder of CD Baby, teaches important lessons about challenging the status quo and testing assumptions when building a business. He also emphasizes treating life as a series of experiments and doing little tests to try the life one thinks they want.