Archive - People vs Algorithms

Is someone messing with time? Or is it just me?

May 1 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

The Clipping Economy

Paid clippers, algorithmic floods, and Netflix going vertical

May 1 • Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, and Alex Schleifer

1:05:52

April 2026

How to live with them.

Apr 24 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

Spooning the Gravy

Troy’s vibe coding project has moved into high gear, as institutional and personal memory becomes the point of leverage with media’s ultimate goal…

Apr 24 • Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, Alex Schleifer, and Blake Saunders

1:15:35

This Human in the Loop

The beating heart of a media brand.

Apr 17 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

Humans in the Loop

Troy unveils his vibe-coded media system that produces a daily briefing based on his entire media diet, underpinned with a memory layer that acts as a…

Apr 17 • Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, and Alex Schleifer

1:06:27

The Inspiration Economy

All that remains.

Apr 10 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

The Great Media Reorientation

Traffic is out, audience focus is in.

Apr 10 • Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, and Blake Saunders

1:13:48

Emily Sundberg, New Media Energy and Hot Takes

Emily joins to help us understand stuff. Plus Troy's next coding experiment is live.

Apr 3 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

New Media Energy

Troy and Brian react to OpenAI buying TBPN: It pays to have viewpoints and approaches that are preferred by the powerful.

Apr 3 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

1:18:24

March 2026

High Leverage People

What vibe coding taught me about surviving AI world.

Mar 27 • Troy Young and Brian Morrissey

The War on Slop

AI’s not very popular.

Mar 27 • Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, Alex Schleifer, and Blake Saunders

1:06:56

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