- 01MindMay 1, 2026
Your attention has a market price and you are not the seller.
Roughly fifty companies have built a four trillion dollar industry around making it slightly harder for you to think a long thought. Here is how to get it back.
Mr. Jay
12 min read
- 02MindJun 6, 2026
The dopamine tax your phone is collecting in 240 instalments a day.
You are not addicted to your phone in the way you have been told. You are paying a small attentional toll every few minutes, and the bill is showing up as anxiety, low motivation, and the strange inability to sit through a film.
Mr. Jay
11 min read
- 03MindJun 2, 2026
Boredom is not a bug. It is the operating system your brain runs on.
We have spent a decade engineering boredom out of our lives, then wondered why creativity, focus, and emotional regulation collapsed at the same time.
Mr. Jay
11 min read
- 04MindJun 4, 2026
Your inbox trained your brain to panic on a schedule.
You are not addicted to email. Your nervous system has been conditioned, one notification at a time, to spike cortisol every time a small red number appears in the corner of a screen.
Mr. Jay
13 min read
- 05MindJun 12, 2026
Doomscrolling is a stress habit pretending to be a news habit.
You are not staying informed. You are pulling a slot machine that pays out in cortisol and calling it civic engagement.
Mr. Jay
10 min read
- 06MindJun 18, 2026
You are not bad at dinner. You are just out of decisions by 6 p.m.
Willpower is not a character trait. It is a depleting resource, and modern life drains it before lunch.
Mr. Jay
11 min read
- 07MindJun 23, 2026
The ability to do one thing for an hour without checking your phone is a skill you have already lost.
Attention is not infinite. It is a resource you spend all day, and the modern world has figured out how to harvest it for profit while calling it connection.
Mr. Jay
12 min read
- 08MindJun 28, 2026
Loneliness is a stress state your doctor does not test for.
Social isolation activates the same threat pathways as physical danger. Your body knows when you are alone, and it responds as if something is trying to eat you.
Mr. Jay
12 min read
- 09MindJul 4, 2026
Rumination is not deep thinking. It is your nervous system stuck in rehearsal mode.
Replaying conversations, analyzing past failures, and worrying about future outcomes feel like problem solving, but they are the psychological equivalent of a car revving in neutral.
Mr. Jay
12 min read