Algorithms Can't Make You Hotter

hello beautiful people of Hot Literati.

Last summer, or maybe the summer before, a friend of mine asked how I can "feel hot," and make that a central part of Hot Literati's brand.

It's funny because even after winning a big beauty pageant at seventeen, I never really felt pretty. It's a big through-line in my life that I'm processing in the book I'm writing right now, but I've taken a lot of steps to define what "Hot" is in the Hot Literati Universe and in my own mind over the past few years. I think it's more mental than anything else and it's a way of showing up in the world.

I will personally be working through the "How to Be Hotter" Guided Journal this weekend, partially because it has an exercise for cleaning out your closet and space, which I desperately need to do. I invite you to join me.

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In other news, I'm reading a really interesting book on algorithms. I've implemented a new rule in my life that I hope to stick to, that I want to learn more about something before I complain about it, because ignorance and appreciation are often divided by a very thin line.

Algorithms predate social media, they even predate computers. They are just a way of working through problems. Input, process, and output. There is something called a "greedy heuristic" that I'm sort of taken up with, that is a type of algorithm that looks for the best possible outcome in each step, but doesn't necessarily find the best long-term outcome. If you want a real mind mixer, you can also think about the fact that Math is a human invention and there is one man accredited with inventing numbers.

What a time to be alive.

Have a good weekend, party hard, read, write, and shop literati <3

xx

hailo