Don’t wait for permission.

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Too much of the world is still run by gatekeepers. When I look at the music industry, that’s the way it was built. Around record labels, management companies, booking agents, and so on. All the people from whom you had to get a Yes before you could “Make It.”

And that’s a dumb system. Because it means that a select group of people get to be the ones who decide what’s good for the rest of us. They get to decide who…