The Day I Let an Algorithm Choose My Fate (And Why You Should Too)
How surrendering control for 24 hours taught me more about happiness than 5 years of planning. apkfew
Go flip a coin. Your algorithm is waiting. What’s the best thing that ever happened to you when you stopped planning for it? Let me know in the comments. 👇 The Day I Let an Algorithm Choose My
But here is the physics of happiness:
My usual route to work is a left turn, a highway merge, and 20 minutes of road rage. The coin said Heads: Go right. Right took me down a residential street I had never noticed. I drove past a library with a giant bronze owl statue. I saw a woman walking three golden retrievers who had perfectly synced their steps. I arrived at work calm. Not efficient. Calm. What’s the best thing that ever happened to
The flip said to email a former mentor I had ghosted two years ago out of pure social anxiety. Just a simple "Thinking of you." He replied in four minutes. He’s starting a new company. He needs a writer. He thought of me . The Uncomfortable Truth We spend billions of dollars and millions of hours trying to predict the future. We read reviews for 45 minutes before buying a $14 spatula. We map out five-year plans for jobs that might not exist next year.