Right now, algorithms are deciding your future. From job applications to housing and credit, invisible systems filter who gets seen and who gets shut out.

Episode 9 of The Xenessa Project shares the story of Sarah, a marketing strategist who disappeared into the system, and explores the rise of algorithmic gatekeeping. Drawing on research from Harvard, Amazon, and ProPublica, we explore how bias is automated and what can be done about it.

Your value is not your keyword count. Your potential cannot be reduced to a machine learning model.

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Silence once came naturally — in meals, in rituals, in spaces where the hum of devices didn’t exist. Today, silence has to be reclaimed, not just alone, but together.

In this arc finale of Outside the Algorithm, we explore how collective attention changes everything: families building new rituals, schools creating phone-free classrooms, workplaces experimenting with notification-free zones. With research insights and cultural context, we uncover why shared silence is more than recovery, it’s rehearsal for the future.

Because breaking the spell isn’t just about putting the phone down. It’s about building communities strong enough to resist systems designed to divide.

Next, we begin a new journey: into the age of humans and machines.

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When someone you love is under the spell of the feed, it doesn’t feel like care — it feels like competition.

Episode 7 of The Xenessa Project explores how to recognize when algorithms are shaping the attention of people you care about. Instead of confrontation, we look at empathy, presence, and modeling as the first steps to breaking the spell.

With data from Pew Research, insights from Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology), and Sherry Turkle (Reclaiming Conversation), we uncover why this isn’t just habit — it’s engineered vulnerability.

🎧 Listen now to learn how attention can be contagious, and why the way out is shown, not handed.