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attention economy

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Burnout Is Not a Personal Failure — It’s a Systems Signal

Burnout is often framed as a personal weakness or a failure to manage stress. In reality, burnout is a systems-level signal—especially among builders, writers, and conscientious people. This essay argues that burnout is not caused by doing too much, but by being forced to operate inside systems that extract meaning, punish integrity, and reward surface-level performance over truth. ---

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Rest Is Not Leisure: Why Sabbath Exists in a World That Extracts

Modern culture treats rest as a tool for recovery so we can return to productivity. Sabbath, by contrast, was designed as a hard boundary against extraction itself. This essay explores why true rest feels threatening in modern economic systems, how leisure has replaced cessation, and why rest—properly understood—is a structural act of resistance rather than personal indulgence.

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If It’s Free, You’re the Product — The Hidden Cost of Platforms

Free digital platforms monetize users by extracting attention and data, but the greater threat arises when state influence turns these platforms into tools of coercive control.

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