Sunday, July 5, 2026
Startups
Older adults who stop dyeing their hair, stop hosting holidays, and stop apologising for going to bed early aren’t giving up, they’re finally letting go of the performance their younger life couldn’t afford to drop
She was sitting in the salon chair when she said it out loud for the first time. Sixty-eight years old,...
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The lost art of being unreachable (and how to get a little of it back)
I am not a psychologist or a doctor, and this should not be taken as advice. The studies I mention...
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The Recipe for Building a Market-Leading Company
Building a market-leading company—that is, engineering your market—isn’t about luck, or the lightning in a bottle of a single eureka...
Read moreDetailsHow Startups Can Build Trust Quickly with High-Impact Homepage Messaging
Every startup asks potential customers for something. Sometimes it’s a purchase. Sometimes it’s an email address, a demo request, or...
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In 1969, the Apollo Guidance Computer kept flashing a 1202 alarm during the lunar descent, and Margaret Hamilton’s priority-scheduling code saved the landing because it had been written to shed low-priority tasks the moment the processor overloaded, exactly as a stuck rendezvous radar was now flooding it
Three minutes before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, the yellow caution light...
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Too many options breed hesitation, regret, and less satisfaction in the end
I have a decision sitting open that I should have closed days ago. Before I get to that, the research...
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Taxwire Raises $25M to Automate Sales Tax Compliance Across 100+ Countries – AlleyWatch
Indirect tax compliance has quietly become one of the most punishing operational burdens facing growing companies, as a wave of...
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The 22 Largest US Funding Rounds of May 2026 – AlleyWatch
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest US startup funding rounds from May...
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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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