You Are Your Cultural Diet
Because the question isn’t just What are you watching, reading, listening to?
It’s Who is it turning you into?
It’s Who is it turning you into?
You Are Your Cultural Diet

Curation builds taste
If we don’t actively decide what we read, see or listen to, it’s decided for us. And we'll be served general slop by an algorithm that's controlled by people with extremely skewed values and ideas about what is best for us to see (hint: they want us to see ads - they want us to buy stuff) . We’re pulled along by the tides of... See more
If we don’t actively decide what we read, see or listen to, it’s decided for us. And we'll be served general slop by an algorithm that's controlled by people with extremely skewed values and ideas about what is best for us to see (hint: they want us to see ads - they want us to buy stuff) . We’re pulled along by the tides of... See more
Finding creative taste ☼ A croissant chair ☼ Choosing good quests
You Are Your Cultural Diet
lisakholostenko.substack.comMaybe we don’t always choose the thing that feels good in the moment because we’re not just consuming to be entertained—we’re consuming to be changed. The instant mood-booster makes the day easier; the cerebral downer makes the self sharper. You can offset one with the other, but the real balance isn’t in the mix—it’s in the intention. Knowing when... See more