Summary: True happiness doesn’t come from consuming, it comes from building. We evolved to create, solve, and construct—yet modern life keeps us passive. Here’s why picking up tools (physical or digital) and making something with your hands might be the antidote to everything that feels wrong.
There’s something almost primal about the satisfaction that hits when you finish building something with your own hands, your own mind, your own effort. I felt it when I published my first YouTube video, every small milestone during editing gave me a rush that scrolling social media never could. I felt it while debugging my first Chrome extension, watching each function finally work as intended. I felt it mixing audio for a song I recorded, hearing something I created come alive through speakers…