I would give you the same advice as well—reject the algorithm. Because the algorithm will make you do things that you don’t really want to do. It will make you work a job that you hate or write “Cherry Pie” or consume 10,000 calories on camera. But is that who you really are? Is that who you want to be?

Running a newsletter like DD is, at its core, an expression of taste. It’s me saying, ‘Here’s what I think deserves your attention this week.’ A process that Stepfanie Tyler describes beautifully in her piece on taste as the new intelligence:

“Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. I didn’t just repost it. I didn’t just regurgi... See more