you* are the business.

blurring the boundaries between you* and the business. unconventional stuff on building one-of-a-kind brands (& businesses), monetizing your gifts, and growing audiences authentically :^)

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For hundreds of thousands of years, human survival has depended on transactional exchanges—bartering, securing resources, and protecting one’s own. But the next step in our evolution is interdependence. Survival and transaction must give way to mutual care, support, and co-creation. The future of community isn’t about what we can get from one anoth... See more

💡The Future of Community: Beyond Transaction, Towards Evolution

Edward Zaydelman livethepossibility.news

It’s depressingly easy to forget you are an individual, with your own taste. A unique person. That contains multitudes. It’s worryingly easy - especially when young, especially when feeling in any way lost or unsure, especially when chronically online - to let the algorithm push you. Away from the edges, towards the middle. Away from anything old, ... See more

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

“Can you remember who you were, before the world [ algorithm] told you who you should be?”

- Charles Bukowski

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

“Under the algorithm, it’s easy to forget there are so many different kinds of people you can be.” - laura reilly Magasin 16/01/24

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Everyone’s faces have the same...glow. Glass skin, clean girl, glazed girl, cold girl. Everyone’s phone’s the same (and have since 2007 when the iPhone first shipped).

Everyone’s drinking the same amount of water, because ofc everyone’s water bottle looks the same (the Stanley Cup...the status water bottle as talisman of late-capitalism hyper-consu... See more

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

we unfortunately are in a culture of sameness.

no matter what area or industry, we are all pressured to live up to a specific standard, imitate those who we think we should become, and strive for the things that everyone deems as normal.

we start to forget who we really are under this noise of conformity.

Everyone’s office looks the same (a blend of WeWork/Soho House lite). Everyone’s coffee shops look the same and everyone’s coffee looks the same. Our high streets and malls all look the same (Main Street = chain street). Check into a hotel aimed at people in their 20s-40s...which city are you in? Which country, then? Ok, which continent?

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Beth Bentley patternrecognitionbytomorrowism.substack.com

💡The Future of Community: Beyond Transaction, Towards Evolution

💡The Future of Community: Beyond Transaction, Towards Evolution

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

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