We Don’t Rest Anymore, We Just Open a New Document (Burnout, distraction, and the quiet collapse of finishing anything, inside our draft-based lives)

Scrolling becomes a break that doesn’t break anything. Tabs multiply like unfinished drafts. Even rest needs justification, like a comment left in the margins of a document you never meant to close. Everything starts to feel half-written: attention, work, even conversations. Messages land like different edits of the same sentence, depending on who’s reading them. Sleep becomes the only place where nothing is being revised. It’s about burnout, but more than that, it’s about living like everything is always still in draft form. Connect with me: https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/