Format: Essays + stream of consciousness
Platform: Medium
Handle: @MicahPpls
Posts: 10

OVERVIEW

Between Tumblr and Substack I wrote on Medium: essays on social music apps, Spotify, AI and networks, plus some of my daily streams of consciousness while I was making gppls daily.

ALL POSTS

February 16, 2023NFT communities are the least organic communities with the weakest bonds
Discord Communities VS Network States: it’s a spectrum Intro Heard Thom Ivy talk about community. So deep. He basically said the web3 discord communities that arose from the NFT boom are BS. Having a bunch of people…
October 8, 2019finding value in worthless content — stream of cons. 10.8.19
I keep trying not to write lyrics when I’m making these gppls daily songs. that leads me to neglecting good material in previous freestyles unless I can remember it. but that’s also how rappers like jay z and lil wayne…
May 26, 2019The Present of AI is Blowing My Mind
In my search for resources to help me automate gppls daily (more on this soon) i’m going through finding people using OpenAI’s GPT-2 algorithm to make dope things like: - predictive text generation (…
March 20, 2019why Spotify won’t go the record label route — stream of consciousness 3.20.19
alright so why is Spotify not going to become a record label and what is the US leaving on the table that china is not? well Spotify is coming for audio. they want to be the Netflix…or somewhere in between the HBO and…
March 19, 2019the DWMY method for resurfacing content
people really be forgetting. i’ve always been a content creator with a bias for the new and shiny. thing is, when you discount past work, and your job, in a way, is to stay relevant, i can make it difficult on myself to…
March 18, 2019how to stand out and make the most of your friendships — stream of conscious. 2.15.10
i realized that making calls on someone’s birthday is the best way to keep up with them and enrich relationships no matter how far you are away from them or how often or little you two talk. it’s all about scarcity…
March 17, 2019how i am getting people to join my live stream — stream of consciousness 3.6.19
i’m slow to come to some revelations. i was surprised to hear that my firend thought meetups were obviously a way of creating lastings connections/friendships. and i’m trying to figure out why i didn’t assume the same…
March 13, 2019is it impossible for social music apps to avoid turntable fm’s fate?
ryan hoover wrote an article on why turntable fm died: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/03/28/what-killed-turntable-fm/#55be2e0e4a1d while reading this, i thought of a product hunt interview i read on Allison…
March 4, 2019how coota brown, the self-proclaimed master p of austin, got his name
last weekend, i was chatting with someone who recently gave up drinking and they said “i used to get drunker than cooter brown” and i had NEVER heard anyone say that in my entire life until last weekend. apparently it’s…
February 21, 2019you’re not as close as you think you are to people in your network
not only do you want to get your content or product out there, you want relevant opportunities coming in from your network as well. and you have a network, you know some people, but things aren’t moving like they should…