Categories only help discovery up to a certain volume
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genre category is only useful to a certain volume. And then you're just really, it just kind of falls off.
Episode 129: Turkish Punk (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:26:09 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
You categorize things only so people can find them. A genre with six albums helps discovery; one with 18,000 is useless. Past a certain size, categories stop working.