Part 3 in the musicto story — the shift to nonprofit, the rise of a global community around the belief that music can make the world better.

After the playlist monetization model collapsed, Musicto rebuilt from the ground up — investing in people, upgrading infrastructure, and discovering that true community comes through creative collaboration.

Why Sublime might be the second brain worth betting on — thoughts on retrieval, team trust, and a product that gets better the more you use it.

Let's start with what we are today - a purpose driven global community that believes music can make the world better. No longer dependent on finding a monetization strategy, we are a program of the musicto Foundation, a registered 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. Although still relatively small, musicto has a global community of around 40 people who actively contribute every month. We use the creation of collaborative playlists to identify culture fit and establish connections between commu...

human tl;dr: it's going to be touch ;-pUp late thinking about networks and how "stuff" is moved and thinking about Farcaster and why I'm spending time here. Had a chat with the AI: THE CORE IDEA:Farcaster could become the internet’s social layer of verified humanity—not through tech, but through touch. What is Farcaster’s sticky behavior?Right now? It’s the people. The product’s fine. The protocol’s clever. But the sticky, the gooey center that makes you open it every morning, isn't code—it’s...

For a decade, musicto has been an evolving experiment - today, we’re finally hitting our stride, united by a simple belief: music can make the world better.

tl;dr - We have way more in common than the demagogues would like you to believe. Come and help our dataset: https://www.musicto.com/what-are-you-afraid-of-and-why/ 28 days ago my /firstdraft entry was two emails that I wrote to reposition the musicto community as a purpose driven organization. With enthusiastic support we became a community that organized around the idea that music makes the world better. In a collective effort to tackle the rise of hate - we wanted to see if our global comm...

When leaders demand total loyalty and surround themselves with flatterers, disaster follows. Every time. It’s not a question of if—it’s a question of when.

I deal with depression. It first manifested in my 20s, and at times it’s been brutal. The idea of musicto actually came from my lowest day, when I needed to call someone to stop myself from going to the top of the building and throwing myself off. The hold music on the line was awful. Over the years it comes and goes, and I handle it the best I can. I’ve put good defenses in place: exercise, healthier eating, less drinking, yoga, meditation, creativity, and foundational human beings I work wi...

I've been traveling over the last week - moving from the warmth of Los Angeles to spend the next month in the cold of Scotland, and after the ridiculous heat of the summer / fall - you bet I'm thankful for it. My wife and I are lucky in that we both work remote and have done for years. We were early nomads, spending at least two months a year in Barcelona starting back in 2015 and yet we haven't been back for a while. We're now spending more time in Scotland and while there are many reasons f...