If you just follow your preference or go in the direction that everything else is going, it's really easy to get caught in a place where you can be controlled.

True randomness

Max Hawkins’s life experiment is very interesting and revealing at the same time. Max let an algorithm randomize his life for two years. Imagine, you click on a button and a few minutes later an Uber is at your doorstep ready to drive you to a secret destination you know nothing about. This experiment reminds us how our choices are often driven by our preferences, the default or the safest because of our fear of being disappointed. It’s a shame, but we rarely give ourselves an occasion to do something new or unexpected (at the cost of our serendipity). That’s why we need more tools that allow true randomness in our everyday life. If Facebook, Instagram or Youtube can show us what they think we would like, why can’t we have tools that suggest us things different from what we are supposed to like?