MentalCritique
The Craft of Mastery in an Age of Instant Results
What a 25-year-old video game remake teaches us about the mental discipline required to build something worth keeping—and why our feeds make that harder every day.
technology as tool, never master
Essays on five domains of humanity — spiritual, mental, physical, relational, financial — asking one question of technology each time: does it genuinely serve, or quietly erode?
What a 25-year-old video game remake teaches us about the mental discipline required to build something worth keeping—and why our feeds make that harder every day.
When a pop star's haircut becomes news, we're not just watching celebrity culture—we're participating in a system designed to keep us perpetually monitoring minor changes in strangers' lives.
Netflix's recommendation engine promises to surface exactly what we want to see—but in doing so, it quietly reshapes our capacity for genuine discovery and relational connection.