@AuthorGoodwin In a timeline not far, far away from our own. :)
Love this since THE ALGO is very much a step-outside-your-comfort-zone story.
What happens when the monsters we fight aren’t distant empires, but the systems we helped build, and who we become when we finally question them.
I've been writing a novel about what happens when a society eliminates the arts entirely.
Not because I think that's inevitable. Because I think the logic that leads there is already visible. (If you know where to look.)
THE ALGO. #WritingCommunity https://t.co/5kmTOigaNa
Expertise is knowing the rules.
Wisdom is knowing when to set them aside.
We're building a lot of systems to capture expertise. Are any of them are capturing wisdom. #THEALGO
Wonder requires not knowing what comes next.
We've gotten very good at predicting what comes next. I wonder if we've measured the cost of that accurately. #THEALGO
There's a difference between a recommendation and a discovery.
The algorithm knows what you've liked before. It has no idea what you haven't encountered yet. #THEALGO
I found my favorite coffee shop by getting lost. No app, no review. Just walked until something felt right.
I'm not sure I would have found it the other way. #THEALGO#Coffee
We've built systems that remove uncertainty from almost every decision. Better routes. Smarter matches. Curated feeds.
I keep sitting with a question: what were we finding in all those uncertain moments? The ones the algorithm would have routed around. #THEALGO
@atlasjlively Hey Atlas, dystopian sci-fi where people's worth is measured by their efficiency score. Psychological sci-fi thriller. Would love to have you as a beta reader.