This document discusses personalization and how it can be improved by putting people at the center. It notes that personalization is approached differently in marketing, engineering, and design. It reviews relevant areas like human-computer interaction, algorithmic living, and various disciplines that can inform personalization like social sciences, machine learning, and data sciences. It advocates designing systems with an awareness of data and collecting data with an awareness of its design rationale and purpose. It also discusses personalizing search outcomes, recommendations, and consumption experiences while considering both process and outcomes as well as moving beyond a generic view of consumers.