Writer at Silicon Canals

Daniel Moran

Writer

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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News

The most painful thing about having parents who love you but don’t quite know you is that they may spend years describing a son they invented to people who may not meet the one you actually became.

The cousin called on a Tuesday.

May 4, 2026

News

There’s a certain type of son who loves his father deeply but may struggle to sit in a room alone with him for more than twenty minutes

I have noticed, over a long time, that there is a twenty-minute limit on the kind of conversation I can have alone in a room with my father.

May 4, 2026

News

Quote by Voltaire: “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one”

I had a friend in New York, years ago, who was certain about everything.

May 4, 2026

Mind

If you want your 70s to be the best years of your life say goodbye to these 10 behaviors

I lost my dad a few years back.

Dec 20, 2025

Mind

If you’re over 60 and can handle these 7 situations calmly, you have remarkable emotional resilience

I've been thinking about my father lately.

Dec 10, 2025