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Better Living Through Algorithms (2023)

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer

Another pop-up message from the app told me to drink my coffee, eat my breakfast, take a shower, and then—with forty minutes to go before I needed to leave for work—to pull out paper, and a pen or pencil, whatever I had around, and draw a picture of a dragon. I’m glad you showed some open-mindedness about this,” said my boss, and I nodded enthusiastically and pretended it was making me more productive even though I’d gotten an actual phone call the previous day at 5:10 p.m. from someone who said, “You know, your job doesn’t love you back. Margo had gotten her answers and sold a four-part series to a national newspaper for enough money that when we arrived at the diner the day that first article dropped, she told the rest of us it was her treat.

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