[schnevets]

It is an awful side-effect of products getting bazaar-ified, where technology reduces friction in entering the marketplace and new "stalls" appear en masse. Human curation is a clear remedy - I can only listen to so much music or eat so many meals a day, so do I really need an algorithm to "optimize" that quantity?

I bet many listeners believe the Spotify-presented playlists are being curated, as if the stock image models in the thumbnail actually are jamming together and meeting with musicians face-to-face. So much of the recommendation service seems obfuscated to customers that I honestly don't understand what the end game is. Everyone is racing to just be "stickier" than their opponent that I can imagine a sudden pivot in customer demands where "Made for you" becomes a technology mistake akin to "Facebook Games"