pkwy

That is just categorically false (re: Mac not an option).

I’ve been doing all of those things professionally on Macs for almost 20 years. I can’t actually think of a single one of my peers that uses Windows.

I was around 27 as well. I’m a big guy with a muscular frame but put on extra weight over the last 2 years of intense company building. If you can get a prescription (Hims will prescribe) you may have to pay out of pocket, but worth it IMO. They may want you to be at 30 BMI, but that is easy to fudge on their intake (they won’t do any validation of your intake numbers). Commit to a few months of extreme dedication and let the financial impact be a motivator.

Reassess progress towards your renewal (we did 3 months). It’s literally cheating, in the best way.

hoping to see some more discussion here - i'd love to replace superhuman. However, until Zero has real keyboard navigation, i'll have to wait.

Outcome based music generally - sleep, meditation, yoga, focus, etc.

The other DSPs are much more creative and allow room for more interesting music. My experience has been that Amazon is my personal favorite from a curation standpoint. I discovered Yonatan Ayal via amazon meditation programming and his solo stuff is arguably the most interesting ambient record of the year.

I run a label that has direct deals with certain major DSPs. We do over a billion streams a year.

The entire “wellness” music category is programming driven. Much of my energy is spent building and maintaining relationships with the programmers, even with our direct deals. We take a reduced payout on the master side in return for preferential treatment on playlist positions.

I have an active roster of extremely talented producers. It’s a volume play. I’ve made tracks that I’m quite proud of in 90 minutes that have done 20+ million streams.

It’s a wild system but we’ve made it work. Not really a critique or an endorsement - just making a living making music.

Edit: fun fact, Sleep Sounds is generally the #1 streamed playlist on the entire Apple Music platform.

I got a Komodo a few months ago in LA area for $3500 used with multiple cards and gold mount batteries, outrigger handle, pl mount adapter, etc. They’re out there, a lot of people upgrading to the X.