When I go to an art museum, I do not want to see the paintings that have the most likes clicked on them.

Like, I don't want to see the like algorithmic feed version of that.

I want one person who has studied impressionism for decades of their life to

arrange a show of these beautiful paintings for me and kind of guide me through that experience. I'm John Favreau. Welcome to offline.

Hey everyone that was today's guest New York staff writer Kyle Chaca.

I invited Kyle on this week to talk about his new book Filter World

in it he makes the terribly bleak argument that algorithms haven't just

reshaped our online world but also our real offline world.

You can think about the way Spotify has reshaped the way music is heard and

created or the way Yelp has reshaped the coffee shops we go to.

Kyle argues that machine-guided curation has infiltrated the furthest reaches of culture,

changing not just what we consume, but also what gets made in the first place.

It's of course a very offline book

and we had a great conversation.

But first, some breaking news from Bloomberg,

here's the headline,

introverts have taken over the US economy, sorry Max, your weekend plans have been cancelled,

we're all staying home to watch Netflix.

Oh my God, you were singing the song on my people.

Can we have dinner at six o'clock too? Look, I like the early dinner.

That's one of the trends in the piece. This is a piece for Bloomberg by Allison Shrager.

She argues, she's an economist.

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