Saturday, July 25, 2026
Startups
Putin rejects Ukraine’s proposed halt to long-range strikes, vowing to press on with his offensive
On Sunday 28 June 2026, in a Russian state television studio, Vladimir Putin used the word “no.” Asked about a...
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People who keep their childhood books in a box they never open aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re protecting evidence that a version of them existed before anyone needed anything from them
There is a particular kind of cardboard box that lives in attics, under beds, and at the back of closets...
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We tend to think our actions follow from our beliefs — but cognitive dissonance means we often rewrite our beliefs to justify what we’ve already done, not the reverse
In 1959, Stanford students sat through a deliberately tedious task, then were paid to tell the next participant it had...
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Rethinking remote work: surveys show people will give up 5 to 8% of their pay to work from home, but a 2026 study links remote work to more isolation, anxiety and depression — suggesting they may be underweighting the cost
Here is something I have been turning over for a while. Most of us, given the choice, will give up...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/29/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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TSMC says it manufactured 12,682 different products for 534 customers in 2025 — meaning the chips inside your phone, car, and bank all trace back to one company on a single island
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, told shareholders in its 2025 annual report that it produced 12,682...
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Thought by Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate...
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One European company owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, the shops that sell them and the insurer that pays for them, and the reason glasses are so expensive is not the secret 80 percent monopoly of internet legend but something quieter and much harder to break
Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the...
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Apologies online fail more often than apologies in person, and the reason has less to do with sincerity than with what digital distance removes from the conversation
Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at...
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Many who were raised in the 1960s and 1970s learned to tell what kind of evening it would be from the weight of a parent’s footsteps in the hall, and 6 adult habits often trace straight back to that early watchfulness
She was nine years old, standing in the upstairs hallway of a house in 1973, listening. The front door had...
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