He’s Been Successful for a Quarter of a Century, but He’s Still Trying New Things

“Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content.”

There's a lot I really liked in this article, the above quote about how we're not searching things out anymore, or nearly as much. But I also finished it thinking about the loss of commonality because there is so much to watch that it's really rare for me to talk with people who are watching what I'm watching. I think about that a lot, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure, but I do miss some of the commonality that I used to experience with folks over a popular show or movie.