¶ 10 aspirational rules for the moral operation of a music service · 4 June 2024 listen/tech
- The technical goal is to organize music so it is explorable. Exploration rewards curiosity.
- The product goal is to help listeners find joy. Joy is various.
- The feature goal is to connect individuals to communities. Music is a social energy.
- The business goal is to make money for artists. Not from.
- There should be one reward system, consistently applied. All financial contracts should be public.
- Listeners are entitled to their own data. Their stories, their love.
- Artists are entitled to their own data. Their audiences, their work.
- People are collectively entitled to their collective knowledge. Coherences, congruences.
- Musical taste and preference are emergent transiences of humans, yearned after by empathetic systems. Not imperious instruments of control.
- Never refer to music as “content”, even to yourself.