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Michael Kovacs

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Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

maybe one of these years I'll hit my reading goal

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Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

this book is really making me reconsider my music streaming habits. I’ve converted to Bandcamp as a way to buy tracks for DJing that directly supports the artists and gives me a high quality DRM-free file, but it’s convincing me more with every page that maybe I should move more of my day to day listening habits to the music I own on Bandcamp instead of Apple Music

Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers)

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

how did I not put two and two together?

spotify. ad spots. they were advertising tech bros in search of a format to sell ads against.

they ad spot-ified our music listening experience.

Michelle Zauner: Crying in H Mart (Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group)

A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. …

Crying in H Mart

I really enjoyed this. The interconnectedness that she weaves with her Korean identity, food, and her mother is truly beautiful. When we remember the people who have left us in this way, their memory sticks around with us just a little bit longer.