Saturday, September 19, 2026
Startups
I lost my job to AI (but not in the way that you think)
My stomach dropped when I saw the email subject line: “Important Update About Your Position.” After covering workplace trends and...
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8 small habits of people who grew up with money worries and still flinch at the sound of a bill arriving even though they could pay it ten times over
A 2013 Princeton study found that when low-income people endure financial stress, their cognitive performance drops by the equivalent of...
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I’m 37 and I just realized my morning run isn’t about fitness, it’s the only 40 minutes nobody can reach me
It hit me somewhere around kilometer three this morning, as the humid Saigon air wrapped around me like a wet...
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Nobody warns you that the regrets that hit hardest in your 60s and 70s aren’t the big risks you didn’t take or the careers you didn’t try, they’re the small ordinary moments you rushed through, the Tuesday dinners, the slow afternoons, the conversations you cut short because you thought there’d be more
I noticed it on a Wednesday morning. I was making coffee, half-listening to my wife Donna tell me something about...
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The people who immediately tidy a room when they enter someone else’s house aren’t being helpful. They learned somewhere along the way that earning their place was the price of being allowed to stay in it
You can spot it within ninety seconds of someone walking through your front door. They put their bag down, then...
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I’m 34 and I just noticed that I’ve been describing my own life to friends in the same tone I’d use to describe someone else’s, and that distance turned out to be the actual problem, not the events I was describing
Halfway through the sentence I heard it. The tone. Measured, tidy, a little wry, the voice you’d use for a...
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Research suggests the habit of deferring happiness — ‘I’ll enjoy life when the kids leave, when I retire, when things calm down’ — isn’t patience, it’s a pattern that simply moves the horizon forward no matter how much you achieve
What if I told you this pattern has a name? Researchers have been studying this phenomenon—the tendency to postpone happiness...
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Nobody tells you that the most attractive version of yourself might not arrive until your late 40s — after you’ve stopped dressing for approval and started dressing like someone who already knows who they are
Self-presentation operates on a developmental curve that most commentary ignores entirely; the assumption being that attractiveness is a property of...
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I’m 66 and my adult son sent me a text last Sunday that just said “thinking of you, hope your weekend is nice” — and I read it four times trying to understand why it had landed so hard — and I finally realized it was because he wasn’t asking me for anything, he was just reaching, and I’d apparently reached a point in my life where being reached for without purpose felt like receiving a gift in a language I’d forgotten I spoke
I was sitting at the kitchen table Sunday afternoon, second cup of coffee going cold, when my phone buzzed. A...
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I’m 66 and I sold the business I built over two decades for more money than I ever thought I’d see — and I spent the first week staring at my bank account trying to figure out why I didn’t feel anything, and I finally understood that the money was never the point, the building was the point, and once it was gone I had to meet the version of myself who wasn’t building something anymore
The morning after the sale went through, I woke up at 5:30 like I had for forty years. Except this...
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