I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process

so you can sew with intention and joy. Today we're talking about how to sew outside the algorithm.

So we're going to cover how social media algorithms are creating cultural uniformity and how you

can find ways to discover your own unique taste when there is this culture of sameness.

All right. So today we're talking about algorithms and our icebreaker today is a fun one. Is there

something that you can't escape on the algorithms right now, Haley? I feel like there's always something

that's like plaguing me on social media that I can't escape. Right now, I'm like nine months pregnant, so I feel like the only kind of content I see paid or just like otherwise is everything having to do with babies in pregnancy, which is like sometimes it's like cute and great.

And sometimes it feels like, well, I'm also more three-dimensional than procreation.

Isn't it funny how that happens? Like even when my sister was having a baby and I was looking at baby stuff a lot and baby knitting patterns and just

buying baby gifts and things. I mean, I was just constantly being sort of baby stuff, baby, baby, baby.

I feel like there's these like moments in your life. It's not just when you have a baby,

but I think there's moments where you're very, like, susceptible to marketing. And

marketing people know this. And I think that having a baby is one of them where they're like,

oh, they're... Well, you do need to buy a lot of stuff. You need to buy a lot of stuff. And it's also

this whole new thing that, like, you don't know what you're walking into and maybe this product

will change your life if you just give us $200. It might change your life. Luckily I don't feel

like this is my second kid so I don't feel like super victim to it. Yeah. But it's the same thing that

we were saying when we got a dog, which I'm not comparing a baby to a dog, but kind of I am.

Yeah, I get it. It's sort of an event horizon if you don't have one. Like, what's going to happen? When we adopted our dog, we bought so much stuff. And at that time, I was seeing a lot of dog stuff everywhere. And like, what percentage of it do you use?

I want to, like, that's always the question with this kind of stuff.

Yeah.

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