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How to turn outrage into output

You open X: more tariffs, a celebrity feud, another tech scandal. Each notification crafted to turn your discomfort into clicks.

That tension is designed. Social media didn't invent bias. It simply packaged outrage into a relentless dopamine drip. Click, react, repeat.

Buddhists have a word for productive discomfort: dukkha. That mental friction when ideas challenge your worldview. Most rush to extinguish it. But friction, mental or physical, is how strength is built. Our minds evolve through resistance, not ease.

The timeline won't stop manufacturing crises. But that restless energy fuels creation better than reaction. While others polish hot takes, builders turn tension into tangible ideas—an engineer coding a better interface instead of complaining, a designer prototyping the missing feature instead of criticizing.

Naval Ravikant captures this perfectly: "Inspiration is perishable. Act while the spark is fresh. Learning and building flow best when you're curious, free, and having fun." Each post ignites a spark. You decide what burns.

Your timeline will continue to show more engineered outrage. But you don't have to feed the machine. Turn friction into fuel.