{"id":1523,"date":"2012-11-18T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2012-11-18T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:30:35","slug":"endless-choice-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/11\/endless-choice-then-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless choice then what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/11\/spotify-and-its-discontents.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify and the problem of endless musical choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>the Internet frees up cultural treasures while simultaneously eroding the mechanisms that endow them with value.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Abundance in a twisted way doesn\u2019t help us out. Scarcity creates value, buying creates value and these are not part of the online world where things are 0s and 1s.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s weird to be on both ends of the stick where producing music feels like losing my time sometimes when there\u2019s so much online which is something that I appreciate as a consumer on the other side. But I feel like constantly trying to limit myself, to take time to appreciate and on the other side, I try to make music and games that last. Basically going against the grain.<\/p>\n<p>F2P games offer the same engagement problem than Spotify: why people would invest x amount of time in a free game when another free one could be even better a click away. Profusion of choices. It\u2019s too volatile of a behavior to be able to build things on a system like that. <\/p>\n<p>One of the core mechanic of our society &#8211; fair exchange- disappeared in our digital culture and I just can\u2019t find a solution except pushing people to be fair and reducing the number of middlemen between customers and creators. But that doesn\u2019t solve the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify and the problem of endless musical choice. the Internet frees up cultural treasures while simultaneously eroding the mechanisms that endow them with value. Abundance in a twisted way doesn\u2019t help us out. Scarcity creates value, buying creates value and these are not part of the online world where things are 0s and 1s. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}