🤖 - Rise of The Algorithms

They Took Our Jobs!

Author

Hendy Saint-Jacques
January 31, 2023

I AM KEEPING THIS BRIEF

So here is a magical revelation: I started this newsletter to make money and connect with people.

Last night I did something I hadn’t done in almost ten years. I read through my spam folder. 🤢I know. I was trying to research how other highly successful newsletters manage to launch, organize, communicate, and grow their audience {Those are three different links, BTW} without sounding like Anderson Cooper or ChatGPT. (For the record, I will personally write these letters. Otherwise, what’s the point?) That’s when I realized how often I blindly subscribe to newsletters. I trimmed the 20+ to the following 14:

  • The Hustle

  • TLDR

  • Morning Brew

  • London Reel

  • Time

  • The New York Times

  • WBEZ Rundown

  • The Minimalist

  • CNN 5 Things

  • TED Recommends

  • Simpler Insights

  • Poets&Quants

  • Medium Daily Digest

  • The Fast Lane Forum

That’s still a lot, and I bet you have just as many cluttering your inbox. Now I do appreciate you being here and reading this. But you owe me no favors, so I’ll stay on my Ps & Qs. But Garbage In, Garbage out. With the rise of fake News and the polarization of the traditional media, I’ve stopped watching tv altogether and entirely sourced my news from the writers listed above. I trust those sources because, over the past decade, they’ve consistently delivered the most profound and forward-thinking insights.

What I Learned From My Review: Even Newsletters Follow Algorithms.

  • Lots of Images

  • Lots of Snark

  • Tons of Fluff with Random Internet Events

  • A TINY UNSUBSCRIBE BUTTON

If TikTok, Facebook, and Google have taught us anything, it’s the power of algorithms. So I’m paying attention to these trends, and I’ll keep some but avoid others.

Landing The Plane

Billionaires, if there is one thing we should always be mindful of guarding, it's our time. Our focus is our most precious asset as marketers rage war on our attention spans.

There will be no limit to how much content will be created in 2023 with the rise of AI generators. A tsunami is coming. Honestly, it eerily feels like January 2020 all over again. If words and images are powerful enough to create and destroy empires, and Idris Elba, imagine what they can do to your mind. Last Friday, this became abundantly when I realized just how difficult it has become to push out words and images from my head and clear my mind during my weekly sensory deprivation float at Space Bar.

The truth is, if you’re reading this, you’ve already programmed. We’re all programmed, but habits can be changed, and social norms are all but permanent. Even alcohol is becoming taboo. Did you know the average person will spend 8000 Hours of their life on their career? So I want to challenge you today to take a firmer stance on controlling how your mind works by…. learning to solve a Rubix cube. (Yes, you can do it.)

Why learn to solve a Rubix cube? Because it will train your brain to think algorithmically. Eventually, you’ll learn to see the patterns in our lives, how to optimize, and create your own.

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