If the universe is indifferent to human existence, we did not fall from grace — we were never opened. Seven billion unread messages, marked urgent by no one.
The most effective way to break a platform is to use it exactly as intended, at scale, until the behavior it was designed to reward becomes the thing that makes it unlivable.
Productivity apps now log your mood so you can optimize it. Therapy is rebranded as performance coaching. We did not stop feeling — we just made feeling something you have to justify with outcomes.
Solitary silence has a flavor — metallic, like the inside of an empty can. You keep tasting it because nothing has interrupted it long enough to go stale.