People have faced most of this before, just without the screens. Pick what you’re facing. You’ll get what history already knew, a lens for seeing it, what’s different now, and one move to try today. A way of thinking, not rules. Check all of it.
The feed is a cave with better lighting.
Old light
Plato pictured people chained in a cave, taking the shadows on the wall for the whole world, and resisting the one who comes back to say there's a sun.
Plato, Republic, Book VII
The lens
Every body spends attention. Give more than you take, and notice what's taking.
Today
Feeds are tuned to keep you watching, not to show you the world. The shadows are personalized now.
One move, today
Before you open the app, name one thing you came for. Leave when you have it.