Alex Dobrenko

The more we activate that intense pleasure response on social media, Lembke says, the more we crave it. The repetitive action becomes less exciting and we end up needing more to give us the same pleasure we experienced with a lesser amount before. Harris likened social media to a slot machine — we don’t know if we’re going to have positive... See more

Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind, or an error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty, and riskiness of existence

And, in an act of very human selfishness, I have a tendency to type the names of these half-strangers into my search bar and hit return, an anti-social urge to answer the very human question: What happened? One of the great intimacies of the internet is the ability to ask the questions which would be too inappropriate or too rude or too personal to... See more

Schultz suggests dopamine serves as a common currency system for desire.