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“I set my own algorithm by only watching what makes me sharper.”
The feed learns you to keep you, not to grow you. This month you trained it on purpose — skipping the junk, finishing the things that teach — and it started serving the better diet. You can't fully escape the machine, but you can feed it the inputs that make the outputs serve you. That's mastery from inside the system.
Your Practice
- Be ruthless about what you finish and what you skip. The algorithm is watching every second.
- Follow sources that build a skill or a view; mute the rest without guilt.
- Re-train periodically — feeds drift back toward the lowest-effort hook.
- Remember the goal: not zero screens, but screens that leave you sharper than they found you.
The Architects
“We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
— Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 October 1943 (Hansard)