Some datapoints: * Many of my conversations with friends now go "did you see that new show X on netflix?" << Usually I reply that I did! Usually because it was

Some datapoints: * Many of my conversations with friends now go "did you see that new show X on netflix?" << Usually I reply that I did! Usually because it was conveniently recommended to me or advertised to me when I turned on the TV before bed. * I got turned onto the japanese reality TV show "Terrace House" thanks to a NYT op ed https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-terrace-house.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/magazine/letter-of-recomm... * NYT book review and the front bookcase of today's bookstores still have impact. I buy books based on that sometimes. * Amazon's best sellers list is important now the same way netflix's front page is important; if you open your kindle or go to buy books on amazon, you'll get recommendations. * My youtube habits are mostly thanks to subscriptions + recommended videos based on my watch history and subscriptions. > If everything can be published, since the costs in this day and age are greatly reduced, nothing is filtered, signal to noise ratio is much lower, and there are many signals available, which one(s) do you bandpass? To me it definitely seems like my bandpass is a mix of old tastemakers + recommendation algos, the algos being the relatively new addition.