THE REGAL EDIT

BUSINESS

Decoding Algorithmic Suppression: Why Platforms Need You More Than You Need Them

There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything “right” and still feeling invisible.

This week’s business pick is a bracing piece by behavioral scientist Abi Awomosu, sparked by the viral LinkedIn experiment where women changed their gender marker to male—sometimes even their names—and watched their reach spike. In one widely shared example, a woman saw an 818% increase in impressions after presenting as male for a short window. Other women reported similar jumps. And notably, some Black women and other women of color saw reach decrease—a reminder that “bias” isn’t a single variable; it’s a system that can be tuned to marginalize with precision.

The sharpest insight in Awomosu’s framing is that suppression isn’t always a glitch. It can be incentive design.

If a platform is optimized for revenue, then what gets distributed isn’t simply “the best content.” It’s the content most compatible with the machine’s priorities—advertiser outcomes, retention loops, and behaviors that keep people scrolling instead of coordinating.

That’s the real pivot: stop treating platforms like infrastructure. They are not infrastructure. They are rented land.

The power move isn’t to beg for fairness from systems built for extraction. The power move is to build what you can own: your relationships, your list, your community, your real-world network, your direct lines of trust.

Platforms can be a doorway. They should never be the house.

Source (read the original):
Abi Awomosu — “Decoding Algorithmic Suppression: Why Platforms Need You More Than You Need Them”

HEALTH

Constructing Hierarchies of Meaning

Here’s a simple truth: your life already has a hierarchy.

Not the one you say you value. The one your time reveals.

This framework is deceptively straightforward, and that’s why it works. You list a handful of “meaning categories” that matter to you—health, relationships, creative work, earning, service, spiritual life, learning, pleasure, contribution, rest—whatever is real for you. Then you rank them by meaningfulness.

And then you do the uncomfortable part: you overlay reality. How much time is actually going into each category?

Most people discover the same thing: what they value most is not receiving their best hours.

The point isn’t self-judgment. The point is self-honesty. Because awareness is the first kind of power: it lets you reallocate devotion.

Misalignment doesn’t always require a dramatic overhaul. Sometimes it requires one small correction made consistently: one protected walk, one meal eaten slowly, one hard boundary, one hour returned to the work that makes you feel alive.

If your nervous system has been feeling “off,” consider this a gentle diagnostic: it may not be broken. It may be correctly responding to a life that’s over-investing in what matters least.

One week. One shift. One category brought closer to truth.

LIFESTYLE

Café Flor — A Café as a Cultural Signal

There’s a spot New York city that struck me with so radiance that I needed to share it with you, too,

Some places remind you that beauty is not decoration. It’s more like a direction.

Café Flor in Chelsea is the kind of space that feels like an installation you can sit inside — soft, alive, changing, and a place that helps you be present.

It’s the project of Raúl Àvila, the creative force behind the Met Gala’s florals and spatial storytelling for years, translated into something intimate and everyday.

The concept is simple and surprisingly profound: a neighborhood café as a living gallery. A place designed for lingering. For conversation. For getting your mind back. For remembering that your environment is shaping your inner world—whether you mean it to or not.

It’s also a tribute: Café Flor roasts exclusively Colombian coffee, a nod to heritage, woven into the experience rather than marketed at you.

There’s something quietly Regal about that: creating an atmosphere that elevates without performing. Designing a space that says: your attention deserves beauty.

Café Flor
📍 218 8th Ave, Chelsea

SOCIAL IMPACT

Scotland’s Community Wealth Building Bill (Stage 1)

This is what it looks like when “equity” stops being a slogan and becomes structure.

Scotland’s Community Wealth Building Bill has moved through Stage 1, and if it clears final vote, it would require local authorities to take real steps to reduce inequality—not encouraged, not suggested: required.

At the heart of it is a re-routing of how money moves: local government purchasing power used intentionally so wealth stays in communities instead of being siphoned upward and outward. Think procurement that prioritizes local businesses. Support for worker cooperatives. Investment patterns that strengthen resilience, not dependence.

The deeper story here isn’t just legislation—it’s a philosophy: wealth is more than money. It’s wellbeing, stability, fairness, and the ability for people to shape the places they live.

For a long time we’ve been told the economy is something that happens to us. This is an example of what happens when communities get to participate in designing it.

SPIRITUALITY

The Weight of the Hope You’re Holding — based on the last Capricorn New Moon (Jan 18)

A note before we begin: this reflection is inspired by an astrologer I follow on Medium (@andreascoretz) who shared a powerful symbolic lens on Capricorn. It resonated a lot with me, and I wanted to offer my own interpretation of the idea that stayed with me.

Capricorn season has a reputation: ambition, discipline, the climb. The plan. The long game.

But there’s another layer that feels more honest, especially if you’re the kind of person who’s always trying to “get it together.”

Capricorn energy can be the part of us that builds safety because it doesn’t fully trust safety will arrive on its own.

It’s the part that tightens its grip on structure, money, certainty, control—not because it’s cold, but because it’s carrying something tender underneath the armor: a younger self that still believes resources can disappear, love can be conditional, and rest has to be earned.

That’s why the Capricorn new moon is such a potent checkpoint, as explained by Andrea. She explained (and this hit hard!): it’s not asking you to hustle harder. It’s asking you to build from a more true foundation.

Not “How do I get ahead?”
But: What is the hope I’m protecting, and what does it actually need?

Because sometimes the drive to dominate an outcome is really the drive to stop feeling vulnerable. Sometimes the obsession with stability is grief in a suit. Sometimes the plan is a prayer.

If you’re feeling the “must act now” pressure, consider this: the most powerful kind of progress is slow, aligned, and well-tended. The kind that doesn’t abandon the body to impress the future.

Let this new moon be a quieter kind of leadership: structure that supports your life, not consumes it. And check out Andrea if you’re on Medium. She’s given me so much reassurance, wisdom, and internal beauty.

TODAY’S MANTRA

Con Mucho Amor,

Tanyette

Smart. Soulful. Aligned.