{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-ezra-klein-show.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fkyle-chayka-w52OsFZA","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"How to Discover Your Own Taste","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/47913775-afcf-4643-935f-31f1dcc86cfb/6a0e5e15-04a3-47c8-9c50-2f2fe8e84437/teks-album-20art-3000px.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5f4aa6f8-084c-4d98-a3ee-327e9b86fcc6\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"How to Discover Your Own Taste\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms, it’s become a lot easier to find movies or TV shows or music that fits our preferences pretty well. But it feels harder to find things that are strange and surprising — the kinds of culture that help you, as an individual, develop your own sense of taste.\n\nThis can be a fuzzy thing to talk about. But Kyle Chayka, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a whole book on it, the forthcoming “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.” We talk about how today’s internet encourages everything to look more the same and is even dulling our ability to know what we like. And we discuss what we can do to strengthen our sense of personal taste in order to live a richer, more beautiful life.\n\nMentioned:\n\n“Quartets: Two: II. Warmth” by Peter Gregson\n\nAmbient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno\n\nBook Recommendations:\n\n“In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki (essay)\n\nSeeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler\n\nThe Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing\n\nThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.\n\nYou can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.\n\nThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Carole Sabouraud."}