Tension: We crave efficiency in communication while simultaneously longing for the messy, imperfect human connection that ...

Tension: We’re encouraged to share our struggles publicly while being punished for showing genuine uncertainty or need.

Tension: Professional culture demands we perform enthusiasm for work that exhausts us, creating a split between genuine ...

Tension: Work relationships have become our primary source of daily social interaction, yet they’re fundamentally transactional and ...

Tension: We flatten our actual experiences into universal struggles to ensure others will recognize themselves in what ...

Tension: We’ve outsourced our moral development to recommendation engines that optimize for engagement rather than wisdom, ...

Tension: Companies implement asynchronous work to solve communication problems while the dysfunction simply migrates to new platforms ...

Tension: We construct digital identities that feel dishonest yet somehow more true than our actual lives. Noise: ...

Tension: The passive-aggressive phrases that dominate workplace communication reveal power structures where direct feedback ...

These explanations feel satisfyingly simple, and they let us frame the issue as a problem of technology rather than ...

Tension: We share our struggles strategically to control how others see us while protecting ourselves from genuine ...