We have more abundance at our fingertips than our entire ancestral lineage, but we’re facing an unsustainable cost of living, a debt emergency, a mental health crisis and a loneliness epidemic. At some point, advancements in tech stopped correlating with improvements in quality of life. I’d argue that it even started to invert in around 2007-2012 with the emergence of the 24/7 dopamine machine. We’ve now entered an era of high tech, low life. Which frustrates me to no end. I don’t have a macro solution. If I did I’d run for office. But there is an easy solution in the micro: personal responsibility and extreme accountability. You have the greatest tools humanity has ever invented available to you 24/7. If you wield them properly, your entire life can completely turn around in 6-12 months. The competition spends 8+ hours a day using them to zombie scroll, binge Netflix, play video games and stay perma-distracted to avoid a single thought creeping into their heads. We’re all capable of high tech, high life. Agency is the greatest superpower you can have in 2025.