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954 Psychology says the people who feel exhausted after scrolling aren’t lazy, their brains are processing thousands of micro-decisions that were designed to feel like nothing

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Sarah Mitchell @ Silicon Canals · 02/26/2026 08:42 EDT

Psychology says the people who feel exhausted after scrolling aren’t lazy, their brains are processing thousands of micro-decisions that were designed to feel like nothing

That hollow tiredness after scrolling isn't laziness — it's your brain recovering from thousands of invisible micro-decisions engineered to feel like nothing, each one quietly draining the same cognitive resources you need for everything else.

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