Show Notes
Modern life isn’t turning into 1984, but something more quietly brutal: a burnout society where we become our own overbearing bosses. In this episode, I talk about Byung-Chul Han’s ideas and how the constant pressure to optimize your productivity, career, body, and even hobbies slowly drains your energy, identity, and joy, all while making you feel like you’re the one failing. I share how this has played out in my own life through rapid promotions, growing emptiness at work, and the loss of hobbies and relationships, and then explore ways to reclaim your time and attention through genuine hobbies, present-moment awareness, and doing things for their own sake instead of for money, status, or algorithms. The core idea is that you can’t fully escape the system, but you can step outside its logic often enough to feel human again, rebuild a life that belongs to you, and find small pockets of rest, creativity, and real connection in the middle of the grind. --- Check out my habit tracking app: https://feelwrite.app/
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