Jorge's blog

Your daily scroll is actually a carefully choreographed dance directed by engineers, data, and the pursuit of profit. (📷:empowervmedia) H ave you ever felt like your phone knows you better than you know yourself? You think of a hobby, and suddenly your feed is full of it. You didn't choose those posts—at least, not directly. The History of the "Invisible Hand"  Back in 2006, the digital world changed forever when Facebook introduced the News Feed. It moved us away from seeing what our friends posted in the order they posted it, and into a world where an algorithm "learned" what we liked. Today, this is the "Algorithm Economy" . Who is actually choosing your content? It’s easy to blame "the algorithm" as if it’s a ghost in the machine. But "the algorithm" is a set of choices made by engineers and executives . They have built systems that prioritise: Watch Time: How long you hover over a photo. Active Interaction: If you take the t...

Millions of people are lying awake at night with tired eyes and a working day that doesn’t pause to care.   (📷:tempatbacabaca) I f you feel like everyone is talking about sleep lately, it’s not just your algorithm. Sleep problems are a genuine public health issue—and that reality is pushing demand for structured “sleep courses” the way gym memberships spike after New Year’s. An Australian report commissioned by the Sleep Health Foundation   estimates that 39.8% of Australian adults experience some form of inadequate sleep, and it puts the total cost of inadequate sleep at $66.3 billion (2016–17), combining financial costs and loss of wellbeing. That same report links inadequate sleep to accidents, learning and decision-making problems, and elevated risk of serious health conditions. 'What happens to your body when you sleep?' ▶️1m37s Zoom in one level and you see why “sleep courses” get sold as hope in a box. Another Sleep Health Foundation report found that 59.4% of re...

The danger begins when the mask hardens and the person underneath can’t breathe.   (📷:dreamcounseling) J ung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist who founded analytical psychology, and his influence spread far beyond clinical practice into religion, literature, and culture. He was born on 26 July 1875 and died on 6 June 1961.   He developed ideas like introversion/extraversion, archetypes, and the collective unconscious, and he helped popularise the term “complex” through his early clinical work.   The strange part is not that Jung still matters, but  how he matters. Today we live inside constant self-presentation: job titles, bios, curated photos, “personal brand”, and the quiet fear that if we don’t keep up, we disappear. Meanwhile, the internet itself is changing shape. Generative search and AI summaries are reshaping how writers and publishers get discovered, and even regulators are debating whether publishers should be able to opt out of having their cont...

We have moved beyond the era of ‘guilty pleasures’ into a world where the spectacle is the primary mechanism of social organisation.   (📷:@empowervmedia) O ur enduring fascination with reality television is a sophisticated interaction between media stimuli and the human cognitive architecture. At the heart of this engagement lies Cognitive Appraisal Theory , which suggests that our emotional responses to media are governed by how we evaluate the content in relation to our personal well-being. When a viewer engages with a reality show, they undergo a primary appraisal to determine if the on-screen drama is a threat or a benefit to their emotional state, followed by a secondary appraisal where they assess their own resources for coping with those emotions.  This internal evaluation process explains why some viewers find the high-stakes conflict of competition shows exhilarating while others experience it as a significant psychological stressor. Recent empirical research indicat...