Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The recommendations create an illusion of diversity and depth that doesn’…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
That’s the platform’s real magic trick—turning ideas into products, writers into entrepreneurs, and newsletters into status symbols.
Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale
Best Representations of Autism in Media
as someone un the spectrum I prefer fair, honest, and nuanced portrayals AND positive is appreciated
Astrid - most comprehensive and least caricatured I’ve seen. This is not just achieved through Astrid herself, but through her colleagues learning about autism and through the other expressions of the spectrum
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
Netflix pioneered the filtering of culture through recommendation engines.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The goal is to hook us as users, of course, but also to divert overall streamshare toward discounted offerings—works that have been licensed to Spotify at a lower price point, both through its ghost artists program and its algorithmic payola-like practices.
Liz Pelly • Mood Machine
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
Glenn McDonald,