E&A’s first intern, Josef, joins Dan, Carly and George to talk about what George is like as a professor, lessons from other podcasts, and high profile music copyright cases. They also get into royalties and record contracts, including Kanye’s, the Oracle TikTok back door deal, how important value statements are, and RBG’s legacy.
Show Notes
- How to write a haiku
- Matsuo Bashō, the Zen poet
- Say hi to Josef, a crucial part of RAIDAR and now of E&A too
- How YouTube’s content ID works
- Beyond ‘Blurred Lines’: How Forensic Musicology Is Altering Pop’s Future
- Katy Perry Wins Reversal of ‘Dark Horse’ Copyright Verdict
- A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
- The one ethic Geroge hopes his students retain is Immanuel Kant’s philosophy
- Jim Collins’ Good to Great
- Thomas L. Friedman’s The Lexus And The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
- The E&A book club is back with book #2
- Dan’s latest new music Friday thread
- I have nipples Greg, could you milk me?
- Tim Ferriss’ 4-hour work week was a great idea, but how is his podcast performance? Josef shares some insight at the 19:00 min mark
- Morning Brew really perfected the Architecture of Participation, one of key GHS models
- George’s decision matrix piece
- Cherie Hu’s Water & Music
- What Does Kanye Actually Gain (or Lose) From Sharing His Record Contracts?
- A reminder of that beautiful time this summer when K-pop fans and teens on TikTok pranked Trump
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
- Is Facebook more than a birthday reminder app?
- Reply All’s Country of Liars episode, a look into who might be behind QAnon
- Hotjar’s tweet and letter to the community about their decision to stop allowing the use of Hotjar on a Trump-Pence campaign merchandise website aka the definition of purpose, not product
- Sarah Fowler’s blog post about her time at Uber and its toxic environment
- George’s OMI: The Future of Music presentation
Three Things
Josef
- Loving: Bon Iver’s Pledge 46 which is helping fans take political action to elect the 46th POTUS. It has gamified voting in a sense, and one lucky fan will win an all-expenses paid trip to see the band perform in Sydney, Australia
- Reading: Shep Gordon’s They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'roll
- Reminiscing: About the PEOPLE Festival in Berlin, a festival with no sponsors, no line up, just a list of artists and stages
Carly
- Binging: Netflix’s Ratched, based on Ken Kesey’s character nurse Ratched. Developed by Ryan Murphy and starring Sarah Paulson, the internet may be hating it but she is loving it
- Listening: To Celeste, after listening to her song Strange - Edit in the closing scene of Ted Lasso, a previous Dan recommendation
- Watching: Videos of teachers on Zoom like this one, and admiring how they are handling this time, quite literally reinventing the wheel with the amount of patience Carly can only dream of having
Dan
- Listening: To Mike Dunn’s album Hard Luck Soft Rock album. He has it on vinyl but you can listen to Faith Healer
- Using: TaskRabbit for the first time. He needed curtains hung, but may have made a new friend in Peter D., who worked with Blondie, David Bowie and Neil Diamond
- Listening pt 2: To his favorite Blondie song which is not by Blondie: Def Leppard’s version of Hangin’ On The Telephone
George
- Loving: Patagonia’s “Vote the Asshole Out” tags on their pants and the story behind it
- Watching: The Hot Pepper documentary on Criterion, a portrait of the Grammy-winning Creole musician Clifton Chenier, a.k.a. the King of Zydeco
- Quoting: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on dissents (hope and accountability), abortion rights (automony) and her male colleague’s indifference (empathy), and what we have lost with her passing
