Rising Up with Yasmin Khan

Rising Up with Yasmin Khan

What Happens When You Stop Performing for the Internet

On social media, smartphone addiction and the cost of constant visibility

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Yasmin Khan
Oct 08, 2025
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Algarve, Portugal. I was here last week and didn’t take any snaps of it! Photo by Paula Sotomayor on Unsplash

Dear friends,

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my smartphone addiction and how much I dislike the person it makes me. How often I reach for it without thinking, how I toggle endlessly between apps as if something urgent is waiting, the late…

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