Music Interviews Podcast · Updated Weekly · Join host Andy Lykens - a music supervisor and music licensing expert at a fast-paced tech company - as he interviews top musicians to understand their...

Decision-making can be quick, pragmatic, slow, careless. You can hear all the arguments or not. You can do the analysis or rely on intuition. You can mix these approaches. In any case, if you’re th…

Seek out the boring people. The ones who slug it out, doing the work. The people who bring big impact even in small spaces, who aren’t vying for credit, and who show up every day to do it over agai…

They’re all the same, because in each case you’re doing something and you get a benefit. Respectively: empowerment, knowledge, your goal. Most of the parameters that determine your outc…

It is so great to have something to check. Something to check means progress is being made. The package is on the way, the project is moving forward, the numbers are ticking ever higher. Checking c…

Sharing is hard. It exposes a point of view, a piece of context, that not everyone will want to receive. Not everyone will understand what you share and agreement is not yet met. You will almost ce…

Our attention is limited by time, the nature of the mind, and by our choice of focus. The more we focus on one thing, the less likely we are to notice another. Whether it’s doomscrolling, writing a…

It’s surprising how often people look at only costs or revenue and make a decision. That’s a little like sitting on a teeter-totter by yourself and then proclaiming that it isn’t fun. Similarly, yo…