An essay on how social media replaces real connection with shallow validation-seeking, detailing what people publicly share versus privately hide, and arguing that genuine human connection requires self-acceptance and sharing beyond the curated surface.
A reflective essay on cultivating boredom, arguing that unstructured, phone-free quiet time creates the mental space for creativity, big questions, and self-understanding that constant digital stimulation crowds out.
An essay on the social-media obsession with words — arguing that policing others’ conversations, caging oneself in narrow word-based identities, and treating words as important all miss that words are temporary and that action, not language, carries meaning.