Spotify

You’ve probably heard of Henrik Kniberg. He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and experimenting with new organizational designs. At the time, Kniberg created an interesting graph that became known as the Aligned Autonomy matrix. He used this graph to describe the…

Make money as a music curator. Get paid for listening to songs and work from home. — Are you passionate about music and love discovering new artists? If you have a knack for curating amazing playlists and want to turn your hobby into a source of income, you’re in luck! In this blog post, we’ll explore various ways you can make money as a music curator. Let’s…

Just my favorites at the moment. U2: New Years Day. No explanation needed: 0–30 seconds are chefs kiss. The La’s: There She Goes. I’ll use pretend drumsticks in the car everytime second 15:00 plays. The Cranberries: Sunday. This intro is unique — a whopping 1:16 seconds long. The second it…

When do you know when a trend is a trend? When similar events happen in a short period of time? That seems too broad and vague as a description. Maybe when a series of related events are orchestrated by an entity. In this case, Spotify. I think the question is…

…Algorithms are rude, actually — My current go-to auto-generated playlist is titled ‘Moody Mix’ because Spotify likes to read me for filth (#Rude.) …It’s a sign of my emo goblin spaghetti brain, I guess; still, I keep coming back to this mix. I mean… where else can I hit my Bo Burnham quota and my Green Day fix? How else am I supposed to enjoy Mitski and My Chem, back-to-back? (…except in…

We all know and love the ‘shuffle’ option in Spotify, when we don’t know what we are feeling and just want to listen randomly to our favorite songs to get a hint of what we truly feel. …

//Disclaimer: This story was written with the help of ChatGPT, as I previously explained why and how I’m doing that HERE. I stood in the kitchen (and also inside my mind) shifting between songs and podcasts when a realization dawned upon me: (Me as the A-side) — Ah, Spotify, is…

Key takeaways Spotify is laying off 2% of its workforce, or 200 employees, in a significant restructuring of its podcast division The move comes after the streaming platform laid off 6% of its global headcount earlier this year The stock jumped 4% at the news, with Spotify up over 90% since the…

For the second (pre-work) challenge of the Ironhack boot camp, I decided to analyze a workflow of everyone’s music app- Spotify. Since I wanted to concentrate on the flow and the thought process behind it, I decided to go with an app that I use on a daily basis and…