I watched this before my YouTube refrain
https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=c3_oBxiaxJKY9HCV
I highly recommend.
Not long after I had a coworker recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0226843084?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
The first talks about how much we let algorithms dictate our day to day. And so far the second (book) talks about how people are forced to live with policies and employees are forced to follow policies because that's just how it is.
It's an algorithm of another sort, hand written maybe, not tailored to an individual but still an algorithm and still determining what we can and should do.
I've been frustrated with YouTube for a while as I know that there are specific techniques in play trying to get me to watch longer and more mindlessly. I stopped going on things like Facebook because of that exact stuff. I'm looking for something and Craigslist has been not great this go around so I went to Facebook. Logged in and searched. After messaging a seller I think I may have ended up on the home screen and started to scroll, I got about 3-4 posts in and recognized this is it, it's so easy to scroll, so easy to see 'what your friends are up to'. Which def feels like a lie with all the non friend junk. But also somehow all your friends are content creators these days so now that's even more notifications. It's a mess. So I ban social media at my house. Yes I can get on if I get off wifi but there is an active step, I have to decide yes I want to visit this social media page. I have to decide I want to try my wifi off.
Think more about what you're doing. Don't let algorithms or policies dictate your life if you can help it.
