Live Events: The Ultimate Rage Against the Algorithm

Ruby McConnell, preside of the Oregon Writers Colony, and I were hard at work for more than a year to bring something new and fresh to the Eugene literary community.1 We were equal parts disenfranchised with social media and AI and our inability to trust what’s real and to follow what we want, not be at the mercy tech oligarchs and their algorithms. We were confronted with the uselessness of social media. You put out a post and … nothing. The only thing, we agreed, that we can trust was being in person. Genuine face-to-face community. It’s slow platform building at its finest.

What would that look like? Leveraging my experience with the podcast, and with a long-term goal of making Eugene as attractive as Portland for literary events, we figured quarterly live, in-person, in-conversation events that I would also record would be a refreshing jolt.

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