drowning in noise: the collector’s illusion

You wake up. Open laptop. Checks important news. Social media algorithms do their thing. 2 hours later, you've gone through 3 posts from industry leaders, 2 long X articles, skimmed the latest podcast from Modern Wisdom. The moment you look up, you suddenly feel like you somehow got nothing done.

I do this all the time.

It’s not a problem of direction, time, or agency, but rather the fragmentation of our attention. Yet, l feel like l’ve been busy the whole time, like l’m ‘learning’ and ‘improving’.

It’s really deceptive.