Summary: A late-night scroll, four books on happiness and addiction, and the Chrome extension I’m building to answer one question before I open a tab: why am I actually here?
My Thumb Moved Before My Brain Did It was past midnight. I was tired, done for the day, phone charging on the nightstand like it’s supposed to. Then I noticed my hand already reaching for it, thumb already unlocking, already opening Instagram, before any part of me had actually decided to. I wasn’t bored. I wasn’t even curious. My hand just knew the motion. That’s the moment that sent me down a very specific rabbit hole: four books, two on happiness, two on addiction, read back to back, because …