- Lily Lederman
- March 9, 2026
Loneliness in a Hyper-Connected World
There’s something almost embarrassingly on-the-nose about being lonely on a device that keeps you in contact with hundreds of people simultaneously. And yet that’s the
There’s something almost embarrassingly on-the-nose about being lonely on a device that keeps you in contact with hundreds of people simultaneously. And yet that’s the
For a long time, these were treated as separate conversations — therapy in one room, prayer in another, and not much traffic between them. That’s
Something is pushing back. You can see it in the sourdough bread, the record players, the farmers market bags, the reading logs, the people who
There’s a thing that happens when you’re scrolling and you see someone your age — roughly, approximately, in the same stage of life — and
Nobody told me that turning 25 would feel like an audit. But there it was — the invisible spreadsheet. Do you have a career trajectory?
I’ve noticed that “How are you?” has almost stopped being a question. It’s a greeting that expects a specific answer — fine, busy, good —
Ten years ago, telling someone you were in therapy was still a disclosure — something you chose to share or not, something that carried social
A friend of mine teaches high school English. She’s been doing it for fourteen years. She told me recently that the kids sitting in her
My refrigerator does not need to know who I am. It has no business having an IP address. And yet here we are. The smart
There’s a particular kind of tired that comes not from doing too much but from being too available. From the perpetual notification, the always-on expectation,