Jesse Livingston has a Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Ithaca College. He then transitioned into user research which eventually brought him and his family to San Francisco, CA. For the past 5 years, he has worked at LinkedIn and Netflix but is now undergoing yet another career transition; because… why not? 

QUOTES

“My wrestle with classical music was, I didn't have a sense that people wanted to do things in new ways.”

“The tech world was more open to change and trying new things.”

“The addiction to suffering, you saw that all the time.”

“Handicapping our own music making by learned helplessness.”

“I walked into the interview, I was able to use the core skills as a musician in that interview to convince them to hire me and that I would be a valuable asset even though I had no experience.”

“Understanding the human experience is really familiar.”

“Finding patterns amidst a complex system is the biggest skill I use as a designer and researcher”

LINKS

• Jon DeWaal, Liminal Space
• Dalcroze eurhythmics
• The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century

PODCAST TEAM

Production Support from Molly Jenkins
Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick
Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun
Theme Music Performed by Jasper Ly

RECORDED

Recorded on 21 June, 2021.