Saturday, July 25, 2026
Startups
People who still send handwritten thank-you notes aren’t clinging to etiquette
A handwritten thank-you note now feels almost disproportionate to the favour it acknowledges. A colleague covers a meeting, a neighbour...
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The adults who stay genuinely happy in their 70s and 80s aren’t the ones with the most family nearby — they’re the ones with at least one relationship in which they’re still allowed to be fully honest
My grand-aunt sat at the head of every family table for as long as I knew her. She was the...
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The art of small talk: 10 subtle phrases that make people light up when you first meet them
For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run...
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Corgi, a startup that insures other startups, doubled its valuation to $2.6 billion three weeks after its last round — and because the same investors backed both, the jump is drawing quiet scrutiny over “internal markups”
Corgi, a business-insurance startup that sells coverage to other startups, announced on May 28 a $106 million Series B1 round...
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Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind
A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather...
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When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit — done in the same place while the mind was somewhere else entirely
Wendy Wood, a psychologist, handed pagers to a group of undergraduates and asked them to record what they were doing,...
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People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost too much to hold
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and...
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Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in children raised around unpredictable moods
In 1941, the psychiatrist Abram Kardiner published The Traumatic Neuroses of War, a clinical study of American soldiers returning from...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027
On August 2, 2026, the European Union’s AI Act reaches the deadline that turns much of it from text into...
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Speakeasy Raises $8.8M to Build the Intelligence Layer for the Live Events Industry – AlleyWatch
For decades, the live entertainment industry has been stitched together by a patchwork of legacy point solutions – separate platforms...
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