Starve the Algorithm, Part 2: Why the Algorithm Feeds Your Anger // Chris Podlich

You don't think of yourself as an angry person. So why does ten minutes of scrolling leave you fuming at strangers you'll never meet?

Anger is the number one emotion the apps use to keep you hooked, because outrage is what keeps you scrolling. This message digs into why being angry online can feel so good, like clarity, like energy, like finally being on the right side, and why that same feeling quietly makes us less honest with ourselves. It also opens up some of the most direct and practical words Jesus ever said about how to treat the people who get under your skin, described here as more like medicine than comfort food. If your feed leaves you wound up more often than you'd like, this one offers a different way to carry all that frustration.

What you'll walk away with

• A quick, practical crash course on five ways to actually retrain your feed so it stops serving you the stuff that winds you up

• Why anger online feels like clarity, energy, and being right, and the trap hiding underneath all three

• The difference between reacting to a 45-second clip and forming a real, considered response

• A simple, honest habit for the next time something on your feed makes your blood boil

• Why treating the person on the other side of the screen as an actual human being changes more than you'd think

Speaker: Chris Podlich | Beyond Church, Griffin.

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Part of the Starve the Algorithm series at Beyond Church, a church for people who don't go to church.