Thursday, May 21, 2026
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The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it
Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to...
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Quote of the day by Helen Mirren: “When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.”
“When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re...
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The difference between people who keep moving forward in life and those who stall sometimes isn’t talent, luck, or hard work. It’s the habits they choose to say goodbye to.
A friend of mine, mid-thirties, used to answer every email within minutes. Weekends, holidays, dinner with his kids. Didn’t matter....
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Uber Eats is now nearly the size of mobility, and the cross-sell hidden inside that number explains why hotels were the obvious next move — and why flights still aren’t
Uber’s latest product push makes more sense when viewed less as a travel announcement than as a defense of the...
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Philippine House impeaches VP Sara Duterte for second time over $110M in flagged bank transactions
The gavel fell on 255. Against 26, with 9 abstentions, the Philippine House of Representatives voted Monday to impeach Vice...
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I’m 35 and for most of my adult life I confused motivation with discipline, and I wasted years waiting to “feel ready” before doing things that only ever needed me to just start
It’s 11:47 on a Tuesday night and I am, once again, “researching” instead of writing. Three tabs open, two podcasts...
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Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
Research on adult children caring for aging parents consistently finds that caregiving satisfaction is not predicted by the volume of...
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Psychology suggests that the loneliest moment in midlife isn’t a holiday or an anniversary — it’s a regular Wednesday afternoon when you realize you don’t actually know who in your life would notice if you went quiet for a week, and the realization arrives so calmly that it takes another few weeks to admit it counts as something worth grieving
The loneliest moment in midlife, for many people, does not arrive on a holiday. It does not arrive on an...
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People who keep their phone face-down on every table aren’t always being secretive, they may have spent years learning that every unexpected notification meant someone needed something from them
A table for four. Drinks ordered. The person across from you slides their phone out of their pocket, glances at...
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People who say nothing in arguments and process everything later aren’t conflict-avoidant, they figured out that anything said in real time gets weaponized and anything said later gets the courtesy of having been considered
Maya sat across from her partner during a Sunday afternoon argument about something neither of them would remember by Wednesday,...
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