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jcb1973on Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

And "Hi Steve!" - listening to "Purification Ritual" now...

jcb1973on Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

And now thanks to discussion of Discover Weekly, I've discovered Steve Benjamins... Thanks!

jcb1973on Blog Post Driven Development

(blog author here) Thanks for adding the link. Absolutely - it's one of the inspirations for us using this approach. I'd also add Gojko Adzic's Impact Mapping (http://www.impactmapping.org/) as a further source of ideas that was in the back of my mind when tweaking and adapting Blog Post Driven Development with our team.

Perhaps one of the things I should have stressed more is what good fun it is to have robust debate about why our work matters! Planning SDK work (even refactoring / housekeeping) doesn't have to be dull.