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The Surveillance of Care

My phone watches everything—sleep, steps, hesitation, doom-scrolling—and it feels like the algorithm knows me better than people who...

Oct 23, 2025 2 min
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The Paradox of Digital Intimacy

Infinite connectivity can still produce digital loneliness: abundant contact that never becomes connection. I’m witty online yet clumsy...

Oct 23, 2025 2 min
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The Edited Life

We compare our lives to everyone else’s highlight reels and feel defective. Social media industrializes this mismatch—our unedited...

Oct 17, 2025 2 min
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The Archivist’s Dilemma

I had become an archivist of my own life—more committed to documenting experiences than having them. The more...

Oct 17, 2025 2 min
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The Constant Escape

I had trained myself to flee the present moment with the efficiency of someone escaping a burning building....

Oct 17, 2025 3 min