Tag: Digital Culture
-
How Social Media Trained Us to Experience Life as Content
Social media may have changed more than behavior. Through years of attention-driven reinforcement, it may have trained many people to experience life through the anticipated gaze of an audience. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
-
Why Social Media Likes Feel So Powerful: The Neuroscience of Validation
How the brain’s reward circuitry was colonized by social media likes, reshaping self-worth, behavior, and identity Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
-
Rest Began Feeling Unnatural
At some point in the last two decades, rest stopped being something people did and became something people had to justify. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
-
Hustle Culture and Nervous System Overdrive
There was a period, roughly spanning the mid-2010s through the early 2020s, when a particular philosophy took hold in the culture with unusual force. It went by several names — hustle culture, the grind, the #riseandgrind mentality — but the core idea was consistent: maximum effort, minimum rest, and an almost religious suspicion of anyone… Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
-
The Addiction to Being Busy
Busyness used to be something that happened to people. Today, for a great many of us, it’s something we are. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
-
Productivity Became a Personality
On The Decade When Optimizing The Self Replaced Having One Somewhere in the early 2010s, being busy stopped being a complaint and started being a brag. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
