Worth Reading – To Change Your Life, Start With Your Algorithm
I couldn’t have this any better:
Click consciously.
Each time you like, share, or even pause longer on a piece of content, you’re shaping what your brain will be offered more of tomorrow.
Want to see more creativity? Engage with artists and innovators.
Want to feel more joy? Follow accounts that celebrate small wins, humor, or resilience.
Want to believe that change is possible? Seek out stories of people making a difference, not just crises.
This is something I struggle with, and I know many others do as well. I also know how important it is for me. To have hope, I need to see hopeful things. I need music, art, and deep thinking in my life. I need less anger and hatred. I’m not going to get less hatred from my feeds if I spend any time at all reading and reacting to hatred. The algorithms are hard-wired to give me more of that the second I display any interest in it. I need spaces where I can interact with real human beings and create things.
As I discussed in this week’s newsletter, even if the internet becomes 95% AI-generated content reacting to other AI bots, I’ll be here looking for other humans to interact with, because that’s what we need. If I spend too much time reading, sharing, and reacting to sensationalized content designed to make me angry, what does that make me?
It’s not who I want to be, that’s for sure. This is why you won’t find me on X, and you’ll rarely find me on Facebook. Slop, scams, and outrage content have entirely overrun those platforms. It doesn’t bring me any joy. It’s not educating me or provoking me to think. It’s nudging me to be outraged, which doesn’t change anything. Real change comes from hope. I want to find that in my interactions online and off.
My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.
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