It's two in the morning, and you're still replaying the conversation, rewriting what you should have said and bracing for what they think of you now, until the story in your head feels more real than what actually happened. You've called it anxiety, maybe even trauma, and part of you just wants …
Podcast
513: The Image You Curate Is the Reason You’re So Lonely. Ian Simkins on the Difference Between Being Seen and Being Known, Performative vs. Righteous Vulnerability, Why Our Platforms May Be Discipling Us Into Loneliness, and How Every Table Becomes an Altar
You’ve become very good at being seen, haven't you? You know how to read a room, how to offer just enough of your story to seem open while keeping the deepest thing safely out of view, how to hand the world a competent, admirable version of yourself. And still, underneath the feed and the applause …