Sunday, September 20, 2026
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You know you’ve been lonely for too long when someone asks how are you and you can feel yourself giving the performance answer before you’ve even decided whether to tell the truth
We’ve all got our scripts memorized. “I’m good.” “Can’t complain.” “Living the dream.” “Hanging in there.” Pick your favorite. They’re...
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The people who are constantly checking in on everyone else aren’t necessarily nurturing. Many of them are quietly running an experiment to see if anyone will ever check in on them unprompted, and the experiment has been returning the same result for decades
Three calls this month. Zero returned. She’s doing the math again, the way she’s done it for thirty years, without...
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Artemis Raises $55M to Cut Security Response Times by 94% Through Autonomous Investigation – AlleyWatch
As cybersecurity spending approaches $215B globally, enterprises face a critical gap: attacks now unfold in seconds while detection systems built...
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Psychology says people who keep adjusting their personality to suit the room aren’t socially skilled — they’re exhausted, and they’ve been exhausted since childhood
Ever notice how some people seem to effortlessly navigate every social situation? They’re the ones who somehow fit perfectly at...
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I’m 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to — psychology calls it “fawning” and once you see it you can’t unsee it
I said yes to a project last Tuesday that I didn’t want to do. It wasn’t a big project. It...
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People who accomplished remarkable things by 60 share one pattern — they changed their minds more often and their identity less often
I’ve got a friend back in Melbourne, a guy I’ve known since uni, who spent thirty years convinced he was...
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Psychology says if someone quietly can’t stand you they won’t usually give you anything you can confront — they’ll be just friendly enough, just available enough, and just warm enough that you can never quite prove what your gut already knows, and that precision is intentional because the goal was never to reject you openly, it was to make you reject yourself so quietly that even you aren’t sure it happened
There exists a particular category of social behavior that operates in the space between acceptance and rejection, and it tends...
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Psychology says the defining trait of people who always move forward in life isn’t how hard they push — it’s what they do in the hours and days after something breaks them, because the discipline that actually determines a life’s trajectory isn’t the kind that shows up in routines and goals, it’s the kind that surfaces when everything falls apart and nobody would blame you for stopping
I had a friend call me at eleven on a Sunday night, maybe three years back, the kind of call...
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People who laugh before they finish telling a painful story aren’t handling it well. They’re releasing the listener from having to respond to it seriously, which is a skill they learned from people who couldn’t.
Donna’s sister told a story at our kitchen table a few years back about the time her mother locked her...
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The people most frequently mistaken for lazy aren’t the ones who never worked hard — they’re the ones who worked so hard for so long without acknowledgment or recovery that their system shut down the way any system shuts down when it’s been running past its limit and nobody thought to check the gauge
There’s a misconception I used to believe, and I’d bet most people still do: that laziness is a character flaw....
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