Afterlight is the editorial lens for the algorithm age.

AI already runs your dating apps, curates your group chats, and writes your job descriptions — shaping what you see, want, and even who you fall for.

I’m 21, an engineer in NYC, caught between coding dashboards at 10 a.m. and losing earrings on a downtown dance floor at 2 a.m. By day I build the systems; by night I live inside them. Afterlight is what happens when both sides of that life collide

It’s my playbook — strategies for navigating what it costs, and what it creates, when technology collides with Gen Z life.

Tech promises efficiency. Wellness promises balance.

But Afterlight translates the noise into choices you can actually use to navigate dating, ambition, and identity inside the algorithm age.

Because in the end, those who narrate the moment shape the future.