Curate or Be Programmed

Design your digital diet before the algorithm does it for you

Author

Justin Glover
May 08, 2025

Today’s Perspective Shift

From: Content Overload
To: Conscious Curation

Theme for the Quarter: Build Your Inner Stack – Mindset + Models
Theme for the Week: Why the Feed Is Not Your Friend – Reclaiming Your Attention

Quote of the Week:
“You are what you consume. Choose your inputs like you choose your investments.”

✨ In Today’s Episode:

  • Replace accidental consumption with intentional curation

  • Design a “Founder Feed” that sharpens your edge

  • Build a 3-source stack that feeds your strategy, not your scroll habit

  • Train the algorithm to reflect you—not your distraction patterns

Curate or Be Programmed

Design your digital diet before the algorithm does it for you

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

Every founder has a feed—whether they designed it or not.

You’re being trained by your inputs.
Scroll long enough and you’ll see: your feed isn’t random.
It’s a mirror of what you tolerate.

The most powerful algorithm isn’t AI.
It’s attention over time.

Time to make it conscious.

📖 Story Spark

A friend once told me:
“The algorithm knows me better than I do.”

That scared me.
Not because it was wrong—because it was true.

It had studied his clicks, loops, likes, and patterns.
And it trained him to crave the very content keeping him distracted.

So I flipped the script.
I started curating instead of consuming.
Manually. With care.

Now? My digital diet reflects my future—not just my fatigue.

⚙️ Tactical Application: How to Build a 3-Source “Founder Feed”

Step 1 – Define What Sharpens You
Ask: What kind of inputs make me a better builder, not just a busier one?
Categories to consider:

  • Strategic frameworks

  • Tech and AI evolutions

  • Conscious leadership

Step 2 – Pick 3 Signal Sources
Use these criteria:

  • Created by builders, not just content machines

  • Practical and visionary (not just “news”)

  • Speaks to your next stage, not your past habits

Examples:

  • One newsletter

  • One podcast

  • One long-form thinker or YouTube curator

Step 3 – Replace, Don’t Just Add
For every new input, remove one noisy one.
The goal is concentration, not clutter.

This is your Founder Feed.
It should feel like a custom R&D lab for your edge.

🔦 Tool Spotlight: Feedly (AI Curated Feeds)

Feedly’s Leo AI lets you create curated, personalized content streams by topic, keyword, and source quality. You don’t need to scroll. You need a filter.
https://feedly.com

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🧭 Intelligent Elevation

If you don’t program your inputs, someone else will.
And they won’t have your clarity in mind.

You’re not here to be another click in the feed.
You’re here to build signal in a synthetic world.

Curation is sovereignty.

🧵 What’s Happening in AI

LinkedIn quietly testing “AI Feed Filtering” options: Beta users can now filter posts by signal type and creator category.

OpenAI launches “custom GPT feed” feature: You can now browse and follow GPTs like social accounts—curation meets functionality.

💬 Closing Insight

What you consume trains what you create.
And what you don’t curate slowly erodes your edge.

“Build your feed like it’s your future—because it is.”

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