I feel the severely increased number of things in our lives -- social connections (former workplaces, schools, kids, church, neighbors, etc), work demands, parenting demands, caring for parents, interests (hobbies, tv shows, ...), modern living (commute, finances, adulting, exercise, property maintenance, ...), etc -- has created so much cognitive load that the only way to "scale" the mind and participate is to leverage tech (social media, online, apps, etc)

how to ease this cognitive load ? I imagine that it is very tempting to accidentally dehumanize others in the pursuit of looking after one's own burdens