EPISODE · Oct 9, 2024 · 48 MIN
🤖 Getting Out of Your Algorithm — with Kate Smalley
from Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media · host Softer Sounds
This week on the show we're getting into it with everyone’s least favorite internet friend — THE ALGORITHM 🙈To do that I'm joined by Kate Smalley, a small business advisor, educator, and facilitator, who recently wrote a great piece about getting out of your algorithm that had me thinking more about what algorithms actually do and how we can work with them rather than against them. Today Kate's here to help me explore:What an algorithm even isHow algorithms function on social mediaWhy it feels like "The Algorithm" is working against usCollaborating with algorithms for expanded possibilitiesHow it feels to be stuck in your algorithm & ways to get unstuckOur fave non-algorithmically-mediated spacesMentioned in the episode: Algorithms by Panos Louridas, The Social Dilemma, Are.na, Sublime, Readwise 👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year. ⠀🏕️ Joyful Impact Summer Camp is for socially conscious business owners who want to turn their empty creative wells into bubbling sources of inspiration. August 10 – September 4. Live on Zoom and async on Signal. JOIN HERE
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This week on the show we're getting into it with everyone’s least favorite internet friend — THE ALGORITHM 🙈To do that I'm joined by Kate Smalley, a small business advisor, educator, and facilitator, who recently wrote a great piece about getting out of your algorithm that had me thinking more about what algorithms actually do and how we can work with them rather than against them. Today Kate's here to help me explore:What an algorithm even isHow algorithms function on social mediaWhy it feels like "The Algorithm" is working against usCollaborating with algorithms for expanded possibilitiesHow it feels to be stuck in your algorithm & ways to get unstuckOur fave non-algorithmically-mediated spacesMentioned in the episode: Algorithms by Panos Louridas, The Social Dilemma, Are.na, Sublime, Readwise 👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year. ⠀🏕️ Joyful Impact Summer Camp is for socially conscious business owners who want to turn their empty creative wells into bubbling sources of inspiration. August 10 – September 4. Live on Zoom and async on Signal. JOIN HERE
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