On "Algorithms Don’t Just Happen to Us — We Train Them."

The iced coffee discourse is a distraction from a real point: we collectively train algorithmic systems toward whatever we engage with most, then act shocked when they reflect our actual priorities back at us. Search algorithms, social feeds, recommendation engines—they're not imposing a worldview on us, they're amplifying the behavior we voluntarily feed them. If SEOs and content creators want less rage-bait, less lowest-common-denominator content ranking well, the responsibility isn't on the algorithm to save us from ourselves—it's on what we actually click, share, and optimize for.