Why Modern Technology Makes Us Feel Smaller

The internet has made us smaller. The algorithm learns what keeps us angry, afraid, or obsessed — and feeds it back to us until that’s all we are. We used to be people with range, curiosity, and nuance. Now we’re trapped in loops built from outrage and fear.

This video explores how the internet flattens our personalities, isolates us from one another, and turns genuine curiosity into identity. It’s about my friend who lost himself to political rage, my own spiral into conspiracy rabbit holes during COVID, and how learning Japanese helped me break out of it — not by thinking differently, but by building something that made me bigger again.

Maybe we can’t fix the algorithm, but we can choose what we give our attention to. What’s your “bigger” project — the thing that helps you feel human again?

Watch next:
→ “The Real AI Revolution Isn’t About Intelligence”    • The Real AI Revolution  
→ "Why the Internet Feels Smaller"    • Why the Internet Feels Smaller  

📙 My sci-fi novel about dreams and quantum computers — https://a.co/d/diRhVGn