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    The Screen

    Frieren and the Friction of Forever: Why a Short Life is the Only One Worth Living

    April 25, 2026 /

    If a sunset lasted for a thousand years, you wouldn’t bother looking up from your phone. If you had five hundred years to tell someone you loved them, you would probably just wait until another tomorrow...

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    Time Feels Faster as We Age? Why Our Brains Start Losing Track of the Years

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    Even COVID has started producing this feeling. Sometimes somebody casually mentions lockdowns, mask mandates, or working from home. An event that completely disrupted human life across the entire planet somehow already feels both emotionally close and strangely distant at the same time...

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    The Min/Max Trap: Why I’m Learning to Play Life Sub-Optimally

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    If life came with a cheat sheet - a definitive walkthrough showing the optimal setup for happiness, career, and even how to spend a Friday evening. Would you use it?

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