Mikey Shulman: evaluation

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…Is the dream here to be, you know, I don't know if it's too coarse of a grain to put it, but, like, is the dream here to be, like, the mid-journey of music? I think there are certainly some parallels there because, especially what I just said about being an active participant, mid-journey turns the joyful experience in mid-journey is the act of creating the image and not necessarily the act of consuming the image. And mid-journey will let you then very kind of quickly share the image with somebody. But I think, ultimately, that analogy is, like, somewhat limiting because there's something really special about music. I think there's two things. One is that there's this really big gap for the average person between kind of their taste in music and their abilities in music that is not quite there for most people in images. Like, most people don't have, like, innate tastes in images, I think, in the same way people do for music. And then the other thing, and this is the really big one, is that music is a really social modality. If we all listen to a piece of music together, we're listening to the exact same part at the exact same time. If we all look at the picture in Alessio's background, we're going to look at it for two seconds.…

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