For some people, the loneliest moment of the week may not be Friday night alone — it may be Sunday afternoon surrounded by family they struggle to be honest with
I want to tell you about a specific Sunday in 2018, in my parents' kitchen in London.
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Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. His work specialises in the patterns connecting how people build technology and how they live around it — the incentives that govern engineering decisions also govern lifestyle ones. He contributes across pillars, with the heaviest output in Mind and Technology.
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