A person can open their phone feeling perfectly fine and put it down twenty minutes later with a vague sense that something is missing. Perhaps they are not successful enough. Not attractive enough. Not productive enough. Not interesting enough. The feeling is often difficult to describe because nothing specific happened. Nobody insulted them. Nobody told …
A strange contradiction sits at the centre of modern life. Most people today communicate with more human beings in a single week than their grandparents might have encountered in a month. We send messages across continents. We join group chats with hundreds of people. We can video call relatives thousands of kilometres away. We can …
A human brain was never designed to emotionally process the pain of millions of strangers in a single day. That may sound dramatic, but it explains a strange emotional reality many people now live with. We swipe past images of war while having our morning tea or breakfast. We watch flood victims moments before a …