At first, I thought I had gotten jaded (a decade in tech feels like forever and maybe I’m now just the old granny shaking my fist about the “good old days” 😂), but after talking to a few friends and mulling on it for a couple years, I now have some hypotheses on how we might have gotten here.

as our everyday software tools and media became global for the first time, the hand of the artist gave way to the whims of the algorithm. And our software became one-size-fits-all in a world full of so many different people. All our opinions, beliefs, and ideas got averaged out — producing the least common denominator: endless sequels that everyone... See more