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Your brain is 300,000 years old. Your smartphone is 17. Something had to break.You wake up and check your phone before you've decided if you're okay. You scroll for forty minutes and feel worse than when you started. You have 1,400 followers and somehow still feel completely alone. You're exhausted…


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1 author picked Touch Grass as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As the author, I am legally (well, emotionally) obligated to give this book five stars. But genuinely, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together. It's a little neuroscience, a little uncomfortable self-awareness, and a lot of realising that perhaps our 300,000-year-old brains weren't prepared for whatever 2026 has become. If you find yourself questioning your screen time, your attention span, or why you opened your phone in the first place, congratulations, the book is working. And if nothing else, I hope it gives you a few interesting facts to casually bring up at…

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