🍪 TikTok’s taking on music, plus mental models for when life goes wrong

Morning, friends! It’s Thursday again, that special time when we tell you the best stuff happening in tech, all before you can figure out why there are no mosquitoes at Disneyworld.

We got a lot of good stuff on deck today. Let’s get to it.

In the oven this week:

• 🎶 TikTok is getting into music
• 🍪 Bite sized cookies: headlines from the week
• 💪🏼 What to do when life kicks you when you’re down
• 🍫 Chocolate chips: things to impress your friends with
• 😂 Snickerdoodles: memes for a good chortle

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TIKTOK IS TAKING ON MUSIC

TikTok is comin’ for Spotify.

This week, it filed trademarks for “Tiktok Music,” with plans to create a new app supporting music, podcasts, and radio content.

Makes sense, since today, people hear songs on TikTok and have to hop to Spotify to listen to the full thing. TikTok’s gotten so good at setting music trends that 63% of people now discover new music on TikTok before any other platform.