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Designer. Curious about how we think, speak and decide. Poking at the everyday nonsense we all run on autopilot, usually with a bad drawing.

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Autopay exists so we never have to see the number. That’s the business model. Studies on subscription spending keep finding the same thing, people guess they pay less than half of what they actually do.

We didn’t get worse at math. When did we stop being asked to check?

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12 years of School taught me to memorise things I can now ask a machine in two seconds.

The machine wasn’t around when the syllabus was written. Somewhere in that gap is a whole generation being trained for a test, not for the world actually waiting for them.

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Staying late without a plan isn’t workaholism.

It’s simply poor time management, dressed up as hard work.

It’s funny how we respect someone still online more than someone who finished well and logged off.

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Planning a baby without planning the life after the baby is wild.

People plan the photoshoot, name, room, clothes.

But not sleep, money, work, marriage, patience, support, or who becomes the default parent.

A baby is not just an event. It is a new operating system.

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Shouting someone down in front of everyone feels like power in the moment. But the room isn’t judging the person getting shouted at. They’re quietly rethinking the one doing the shouting.

When did we decide volume was the same as being right?

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We unlock the phone, scroll through the apps, open nothing, and lock it again.

No notifications asked for this. We didn’t decide to do it. Somewhere along the way the hand learned to do it on its own.

When did checking stop needing a reason!?

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Ask someone for water and watch closely. Mostly they take a sip first, then hand it over.

Same move as breaking off a piece before passing the packet of chips, or pouring your own cup before serving the pot.

When did sharing start with a portion for the sharer?

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Years of money on hair fall and dandruff products later, a thought finally landed. Am I one product away from fixing this, or is the search itself the product they're actually selling me? Anyway. Off to find the one.
Is it just me still buying the next bottle every time? Did you find "The One"?

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What kind of life is this? You work from the second you wake, eat every meal at your desk, and get to bed just in time to watch your family already asleep.

All of it for money that can buy almost anything except the time we are losing every single day. We tell ourselves we are working hard to give them a better tomorrow. We are quietly spending their today to do it.

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Empty lane. I’m cruising, a calm reasonable adult. The car ahead signals to move in and the calm reasonable adult instantly dies. I speed up to deny a man access to a lane I wasn’t even using. Everyone behind copies me. Now he’s blinking into a wall of us. How much of life is this?

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@karthik2k2 The internet first turns tragedy into content.
Then content turns into footfall.
That’s the part that feels disturbing.

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@NaziaFarheen84 Now it's really getting suspicious! An investigation and test would be fair to end this for good.

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@muheediva01 Yes parents should never be trained to ignore repeated distress.

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Parenting gets underrated because it happens inside homes.

Put the same sleep loss, pressure, emotional labour and risk inside an office, and suddenly it would need a team, budget and quarterly review.

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First day at the gym, certain everyone is watching you fumble with a machine. Here is the thing. The fit people aren't watching. They are deep in their own set, equally sure that everyone is watching them. The whole room is performing for an audience that doesn't exist.

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We spend all week waiting for the weekend, then wake up Saturday, reach for the phone, and somehow it's dark again. Nothing got done, nothing got rested either. We wanted free time so badly, and we have no idea what to do with it. So what were we actually waiting for?

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@thejustinwelsh Works if you already get to choose. For most people the job picks the city. The choice itself is the privilege.

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@FactBuff The tricky part isn’t learning this. It’s learning it without slowly becoming the exact kind of person you needed to be warned about.

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@_falsi1ke Absolutely and I am living this.

And the part nobody adds: while you’re noticing their family patterns in them, they’re probably noticing yours in you. You don’t just marry someone’s background. You merge two sets of defaults that were installed way before you met.