Links • 29 May 2026
Optimisation culture is making us fragile
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- Source name
- Brad Stulberg
- Summary
- Brad Stulberg argues that online ‘optimisation culture’ is making people fragile, because obsessing over perfect sleep, diet, and metrics turns normal life variation into anxiety.
Brad Stulberg:
When you need to control everything always, you lose the ability to perform well when you can’t. The best performers keep the main things the main things. But they aren’t optimizers. That shit burns you out. You need to know when to lock in and when to let go. You can’t be so delicate that any small change to your routine throws you for a massive loop.