It’s all very paradoxical: that the ability to constantly communicate has made us bad communicators, that instant access to all forms of entertainment would leave us with so few touchstones, that surveilling kids doesn’t necessarily make them safer, that the absence of limitations also often means the absence of creativity — and that the particular... See more

Choice, in theory, is freedom. But in practice, it can feel like a quiet paralysis. Like standing in the middle of a MECCA store choosing a lipstick out of 150 options, all promising and slightly wrong.