Am I my Algorithm?

Siddharth wonders, Am I my algorithm?

Now every playlist Spotify makes is drenched in melancholy. Even my ‘workout mix’ sounds like I should be crying on a treadmill.

He concludes: No.

Your algorithm isn’t a reflection of you. It’s a prediction of who you will be in the future, configured from past data. A portrait based on your past self, a bygone era, the guy from yesterday who spent an hour watching random video rabbit holes, a guy who no longer exists.