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Algorithmic mediocrity has triggered a renaissance of human discernment, with consumers seeking trusted curators, insider communities, and editorial voices that offer genuine discovery.
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
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A recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations.
By Kyle Chayka
October 30, 2024
Illustration by Ariel Davis
Save this story
In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutte... See more
newyorker.com • Unnamed Document
Tyler Cowen’s book Create Your Own Economy observes that, as individualized social feeds have dwarfed newspapers and personalized Netflix recommendations dwarfed movie theaters, we have less of a shared substrate — less collective knowledge we all learn, less collective experiences we all share, and less collective identities we all embrace.
Erik Torenberg • Markets and Communities
But it needs to include something that taps into what matters about the world now. There has to be something at stake that involves modernity.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
“Those frustrated Apple employees aren’t just arguing about their commutes,” I wrote in a New Yorker article reporting on this fight. “They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
