Drained Brain
The light is on. Nobody's home.
“Where did the day go?”
You know the feeling. You picked up the phone to check the weather, and twenty minutes later you're on Reels of strangers' weddings. The Drained Brain isn't tired exactly — it's spent. Spent on a thousand micro-decisions you didn't notice making.
Attention is a battery and the feeds know it. Every notification, every algorithmic surprise, every "just one more" is a small withdrawal. By the time you sit down to do the thing that actually matters, the wallet's empty. You blame your discipline. It's not your discipline.
The Drained Brain is the predictable output of an environment designed to drain you. Fixing it isn't about willpower; it's about engineering — fewer entry points to the feed, more friction on the apps, more pre-committed structure on what to do when the impulse hits. The brain rests when the environment lets it.
