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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Some good passages/insights, but overall a long read to get through.
Not interested right now, might come back to this later
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reflective
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inspiring
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This book really opened my eyes to just how enmeshed I’d become in the filter world, and how little it benefited me. It motivated me to support a radio station, read more books and follow what I’m passionate about, not just what the algorithm wants me to watch.
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informative
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An extremely boring, dated, and shallow perspective on such a fascinating topic. Idk how you can live in the algorithm age and have such a bland perspective on how they shape us (individually and collectively). I feel like I’ve had deeper chats about this over drinks with friends.
The thesis - that algorithms flatten culture - rings true from personal experience, but is not convincingly argued in the book. To an extent, we have always been filtering culture. Whether it’s through algorithms or through celebrities, magazines, fashion houses, art galleries, critics, etc. What makes algorithms better or worse than other more “human” tastemakers with their own (often sexist, racist, classist) biases?
Also the SHEER amount of commentary on the millennial hipster coffee house - like, you’re 10 years late, we already covered that.
The thesis - that algorithms flatten culture - rings true from personal experience, but is not convincingly argued in the book. To an extent, we have always been filtering culture. Whether it’s through algorithms or through celebrities, magazines, fashion houses, art galleries, critics, etc. What makes algorithms better or worse than other more “human” tastemakers with their own (often sexist, racist, classist) biases?
Also the SHEER amount of commentary on the millennial hipster coffee house - like, you’re 10 years late, we already covered that.
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reflective
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This is a brilliant and compelling analysis of how digital algorithms are shaping culture into a flattened homogenous dopamine drip — but Kyle Chayka doesn’t just paint a dour picture, he poses radical alternatives to reclaim our world from tech behemoths