That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human —... See more

Is it the writer’s role to be strategic or truthful?

• We have less time to do the work.


• We’re catering to an algorithmic context where data points have become a proxy for human insight and frameworks have become stand-ins for stories.


• Strategic creativity, qualitative dives and non-linear thinking are often assumed to be time-wasters when the pressure is on.


• Strategic explorations are narrowing to the

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