Spangler's Log.
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05.23.10 1 year ago mrmattspanglerDan Pink from his fascinating lecture on What Motivates Us.
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10.17.09 2 years ago mrmattspanglerElliot Spitzer (via soupsoup) (via evangotlib) (via mikehudack)
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09.04.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
My best friend and his wife just bought a new home in Brooklyn Heights. We were discussing it the other night and he had remarked how crazy he was that the thing he was spending more money on then anything else in his entire life, he looked at for about 20 minutes before deciding to buy it. For the fast paced NYC real estate market this is not un-common as great apartments (especially in Brooklyn Heights) go fast. This is a good chart that gives perspective on not only your home purchase, but what else people spend their money on.
In the context of the current healthcare debate, even if you combine the insurance section and the healthcare section on this chart its still less then transportation and pales in comparison to housing. It gives an interesting perspective on what the most important topics should be for public discourse around government regulation and intervention.
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05.22.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
For Love or Money
The last post got me thinking a bit more about music and I came upon this from twentyfourbit. The full interview with Moby is quite good, and while he sounds a bit defeatist, I agree with the notion that new artists should lower their expectations for the “amount” of money they might make from a hit record. Of course, the glass half full argument is at the same time there are certainly still strong opportunities for so many more musicians to carve out great careers and make “good” money doing what they love.
If you’re still hoping that your next record will sell 10 million copies amid the current music industry’s crisis, Moby’s here to shatter your dreams. In a way, Moby is the perfect man to deliver the bad news: His 1999 album Play went platinum 10 times, it was the first record to license all of its songs, and he’s friends with David Lynch.
In an interview with LA Weekly’s Liz Ohanesian, Moby celebrated the decline of a wealth-driven music industry and welcomed the dawn of musicians that are in it for love instead of money. As for musicians thinking that marketing will help them sell 10 million records, “That’s delusional,” Moby said. “No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done… Anyone who wants to start a band in 2009 because they want to get rich is, quite simply, an idiot… The older, established artists can get rich, but new artists have to make music for the love of it because there is no real financial incentive, which I think is actually a really healthy thing.”
It sure is a lot easier to record and distribute your labors of love nowadays, but I’d be careful saying those with financial incentives are extinct just yet. For more from Moby, including his relationship with David Lynch, his former Hollywood partying lifestyle, and how he thinks money makes people miserable, click here.
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05.14.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
