Social Media and Your Truth

Stoicism For Everyone Podcast · Jul 11, 2026 · 10m

It happened the same way every time. I would open the app with a specific intention. Check a notification. Respond to a message. Look up a recipe. And forty-five minutes later, I would find myself scrolling through the life of someone I had not spoken to in seven years, feeling a vague sense of inadequacy that I could not quite name. It was not jealousy. It was something more subtle. It was the sense that everyone else seemed to have resolved their contradictions while I was still sitting in mine. Their lives looked coherent. Their photos told a story of...Become a supporter of this podcast…