Sunday, September 13, 2026
Startups
The July 2026 US Venture Capital Funding Report – AlleyWatch
US startups raised $19.44B across 492 companies in July 2026, a month defined by a convergence of mega-rounds in artificial...
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Psychology says people who say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ without thinking twice usually learned it so early and so thoroughly that politeness stopped being manners and became something closer to instinct, like breathing out before breathing in
I said thank you to an ATM last week. Out loud. In a bank lobby in Bangkok, to a machine,...
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The best evidence on AI and productivity does not agree with itself: Harvard and BCG found consultants using GPT-4 finished skilled tasks 25 per cent faster, while a separate trial found experienced coders using AI tools were 19 per cent slower, and did not notice
Ask anyone who has spent the last two years wiring an AI assistant into their workday whether it has made...
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The AlleyWatch July 2026 New York Venture Capital Funding Report – AlleyWatch
New York City startups raised $1.81B across 53 deals in July 2026, a purposeful step down from June’s exceptional $3.90B...
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The men who consume the most information — podcasts queued, newsletters unread, tabs left open for weeks — are often the ones who have quietly stopped asking whether any of it is changing how they think
I know a guy with eleven podcast episodes queued, forty-something newsletters sitting unread, and a browser with so many tabs...
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The Value Creation Engine: How Growth Equity Firms Turn Strategy Into Results
You know the pattern. The value creation plan is sharp, the management team agrees, and the initiatives get owners, milestones,...
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The 7 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of July 2026 – AlleyWatch
New York’s startup ecosystem had another strong month in July 2026, with founders across finance, AI, travel, and healthcare pulling...
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Adults who take the same walk at the same time every evening may not be creatures of rigid habit; they may have found that repetition in the body can help the mind finally set something down
The evening walk can look like the smallest possible ritual. Same route, same hour, same slightly worn shoes. Neighbours begin...
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People who can’t finish a book they aren’t enjoying aren’t lacking discipline, they’ve quietly figured out that the years remaining are shorter than the years behind, and finishing things out of obligation has stopped feeling like virtue
There is a specific kind of freedom that arrives, usually somewhere in the middle of life, when a person closes...
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Taking responsibility runs against a built-in bias: we tend to claim our successes and blame circumstances for our failures, and the real skill is owning the part we actually controlled, neither none of it nor all of it
Taking responsibility is one of those virtues we treat as simple. You either own your part or you make excuses,...
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