Social media platforms promise connection and entertainment, yet they often deliver an experience that leaves you wondering where your day went. The culprit? Algorithms designed to prioritize their profits over your well-being. While they’re hailed as technological marvels, these invisible forces are quietly reshaping how we spend our free time—and not in our favor. The…

The late-great Albert Ellis, a psychiatrist from New York – he was very New York – often said addicts should make two adjustments. First, they should take all that obsessive energy they use to keep their addiction going – the energy used to find, purchase, use, and endlessly thinking about their substance of choice –…