I love giving leadership to people, ideas, and tech that together empower meaningful experiences to improve lives. #AI #Personalization @SpotifyEng
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Jun 12
As I gain more experience with AI tools in a large organization, three principles for the future of software engineering:
1. Humans will always be best at understanding humans since we are embodied, conscious, and have empathetic theories of other minds.
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Jun 12
2. Good software engineering principles like encapsulation won't change. Whether a robot or human is trying to understand code they'll want to do it efficiently.
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Jun 12
3. Agility in software engineering becomes more important. Our speed improves faster than our forecasting.
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12 Nov 2025
The more experience I get with the arc of #GenerativeAI the more I sense that in the long run we'll all essentially become product managers or platform engineers.
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25 Jul 2025
I like radical @candor but think it doesn't go deep enough: personal care and direct challenge aren't orthogonal dimensions -- challenging is a deep form of caring.
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30 Jun 2025
Glad to hear a @YaleDivSchool prof [1] and the CEO of @AnthropicAI [2] each affirm that AI will drive home that meaning in life can't come from being the best at something.
[1] @MiroslavVolf - open.spotify.com/episode/27t…
[2] @DarioAmodei -youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJik…
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12 Sep 2023
Glad to have our team's understanding of you and the music you love helping power this great feature. I'm enjoying my own "unwinding lush Tuesday afternoon".
Today, we launched our newest feature daylist, a playlist that evolves with you throughout the day. What did I learn from mine? Well, for starters, my best days start with early morning hip hop and apparently I manifest tropical vibes as the sun goes down. Who knew? 🤣What’s your daylist looking like? spotify.com/daylist
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16 Jun 2023
I’m grateful for the life of @BrownCSDept’s Eugene Charniak who passed on Tuesday. His “Statistical Language Learning” book helped pave the way for me into #NLP in the late 90s.
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3 Dec 2022
#ChatGPT is impressive, like having a clever high schooler for each domain of human knowledge answer any request. Its output is not innovative or insightful but seems competent. I empathize with those of us trying to detect when it’s not competent…and with high school teachers.
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29 Jan 2022
Why have hack time? To empower folks to do something they think is valuable for the org without having to do the usual convincing of their leads that it's valuable. It's an acknowledgement by leads that your own perception of what's valuable is imperfect.
22 Oct 2021
When your values are a firm foundation and your mission is an inspiring aspiration, good things happen... newsweek.com/2021/10/29/spot…
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12 Feb 2021
Excited to be charting the future of knowledge work (from anywhere) the Spotify way! #MachineLearning friends — if location was a barrier, look again! spotifyjobs.com
12 Feb 2021
Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere, which allows employees to choose to work from the place that suits their style best. Read more about our thinking. bit.ly/3pjhd73
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8 Oct 2020
Glad my favorite leadership podcast @patricklencioni celebrated work friends (link.tospotify.com/82otSrURp…), but I’d amend to say friendships at work are different because of a 3rd party: the org, which complicates things because of varying accountabilities and time spent together.
2 May 2020
Glad for reminders from the always entertaining @mlittmancs in this episode that humanity-centered ML requires considering unintended consequences and that #ReinforcementLearning has a ways to go from data-rich simulations to broad real world impact.
1 May 2020
In episode 7, we have with us @mlittmancs as our guest. Listen to the podcast here:
thetalkingmachines.com/episo…
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19 Feb 2020
Kudos to the members of our Personalization Platform org who led this (Owen H., @marctollin, Erin P. and @mayahhf to name a few) -- not just for making it more efficient but even more for helping deliver a meaningful experience for listeners and creators!
techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/ho…
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10 Dec 2019
I'm grateful to @RiceUniversity for many, many things so was glad to share some lessons learned from my vocational journey so far with the Rice community. I'd be eager to hear what resonates with you.
10 Dec 2019
In his #RicecompSci #Ricealumni profile, @dmurga (B.S. '99) said "Mission-Driven Machine Learners are engineers who love customers even more than code, love results even more than research, and love values even more than the value of their bank account." cs.rice.edu/dmurga
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11 Oct 2019
.@lawrennd's all too true Big Data Paradox ~ "we have more data but less understanding of society" on the latest @TlkngMchns (open.spotify.com/episode/4Li…) reminds me of T. S. Eliot:
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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3 Oct 2019
The purpose of ML platforms is to remove *accidental* complexity so that we can focus on *essential* complexity, like thinking clearly about what problem to solve. It’s the same lesson as Brooks’s “No Silver Bullet” (1986).
~ @AndrewYNg on @twimlai open.spotify.com/episode/4OK…
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2 Oct 2019
The latest edition of "AI: A Modern Approach" is more about "what to optimize" (& why) than the 1st's "how to optimize". ~ Peter Norvig w/@lexfridman. Makes me nostalgic for my 1997 "red edition", thankful for our progress since, & mindful for the future. open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0B…
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