One of the easiest books to read about algorithms you'll find, chock full of insights about how music, the music industry and the world of streaming works. Perhaps the best part is that the casual fun writing is shot through with the author's music suggestions and humanity, giving the whole piece a warm friendly feel. It's also filled with potent quotes about the future we should want to build with algorithms, computers, and art. Every Spotify user should read it. Then everyone else.
User Profile
Aram Zucker-Scharff is an Engineering Lead for Privacy & Security Compliance. Aram has developed open-source tools for publishers and consulted on content strategy and digital newsroom workflows.
This link opens in a pop-up window
Aram ZS's books
Read (View all 14)
To Read (View all 40)
User Activity
RSS feed Back
The algorithm and the humans in it
5 stars
One of the easiest books to read about algorithms you'll find, chock full of insights about how music, the music industry and the world of streaming works. Perhaps the best part is that the casual fun writing is shot through with the author's music suggestions and humanity, giving the whole piece a warm friendly feel. It's also filled with potent quotes about the future we should want to build with algorithms, computers, and art. Every Spotify user should read it. Then everyone else.
Aram ZS wants to read Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.
Open source …
Aram ZS started reading You Have Not yet Heard Your Favourite Song by Glenn McDonald
Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably …
Aram ZS finished reading Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably …
Aram ZS wants to read Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum
Aram ZS wants to read Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu
Aram ZS wants to read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new …
Aram ZS wants to read Into the universe of technical images by Vilém Flusser (Electronic mediations -- v. 32)
Into the universe of technical images by Vilém Flusser (Electronic mediations -- v. 32)
Aram ZS wants to read Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
An “essential and riveting” (Jonathan Haidt) analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how …
Aram ZS wants to read Underground Empire by Henry Farrell
Aram ZS wants to read You Have Not yet Heard Your Favourite Song by Glenn McDonald
Aram ZS wants to read Patriots' Dilemma by Timothy Messer-Kruse
Patriots' Dilemma by Timothy Messer-Kruse
Many accounts of the US founding hinge on a fundamental conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery interests. By 1776, influential American …
