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brittbat 's review for:
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka
Filterworld for me feels like a presentation of thoughts similar to ones I've already had, with the benefit of gathering them all together and providing anecdotes and data I didn't have. Sometimes distillation is as valuable as revelation, and I feel that this is a valuable read. It helped me make a small jump from thinking about how shallow and fragmented culture feels to reflecting on the passivity with which I consume that fragmented culture and what options there are for breaking free. (Mostly by being intentional about what we consume and how and by leaning into human curation.)
After reading Stolen Focus last year, I felt some doomerism about social media. That doomerism isn't entirely gone, but Filterworld made me feel like perhaps I can at least take some control of how I interact with it. It's making me want to take a 3-month algorithm detox and see what happens.
After reading Stolen Focus last year, I felt some doomerism about social media. That doomerism isn't entirely gone, but Filterworld made me feel like perhaps I can at least take some control of how I interact with it. It's making me want to take a 3-month algorithm detox and see what happens.