Writer at Silicon Canals

Lachlan Brown

Writer

Lachlan Brown is a writer at Silicon Canals contributing across the Mind pillar. His background blends formal training — a Graduate Diploma in Psychological Studies from Deakin University — with a long practice of Eastern philosophy and two decades of operating businesses from scratch. He writes about high-performance routines, decision-making under pressure, and the discipline of clarity in technology work — where the patterns that govern building also govern living. He splits his time between Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City.

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Mind

There’s a specific kind of loneliness that hits hardest at 35. Not the loneliness of being alone on a Friday night, but of realizing you could disappear for a week and the only people who’d notice are the ones who need something from you.

The loneliness that arrives in your mid-thirties doesn't announce itself — it just quietly replaces every friendship you thought was permanent with a transactional exchange you barely noticed forming.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

The difference between people who actually change their lives and people who just talk about it often comes down to what they do in the first 90 seconds after waking up

A lot of us are world-class life-changers.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

The people who keep their home impossibly clean may not be organized. Some grew up in chaos and learned that physical space was the one variable they could control.

Compulsive tidiness is one of the most misread behaviours in adult life. For many, the drive to keep an impossibly clean home started as the only form of agency available to a child living in chaos, and the pattern never stopped running.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

People who go quiet when they’re angry may not be giving you the silent treatment. They may have learned early that their anger was not safe to express at full volume.

People who go quiet during conflict aren't always giving you the silent treatment. Many learned in childhood that their anger wasn't safe to express, and silence became the only container strong enough to hold it without consequences.

Mar 31, 2026

Technology

Americans are using AI more than ever, but only 21% trust it — and 70% now fear it will eliminate jobs

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Mar 31, 2026

Technology

Court blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting, finds Trump administration’s ‘kill switch’ claim had no evidence

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Mar 31, 2026

Mind

I used to be unhappy and I blamed everything around me — until I realized I’d built an entire life around avoiding the one conversation I needed to have with myself

For a long stretch of my late twenties, I had a list.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

People who keep their circle small may not be antisocial. They may have learned that intimacy and popularity are opposing forces.

The instinct to treat a small social circle as evidence of a social problem is understandable.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

Introverts often don’t realize it, but the way they experience loneliness can be different from most people

Most people assume loneliness is straightforwardly about being alone too much.

Mar 31, 2026

Mind

Overthinkers often don’t realize it, but the way they experience happiness can be different from most people

Most people, when something good happens, simply experience it.

Mar 31, 2026

Technology

$850M in total funding: How South Korean chipmaker Rebellions is positioning against NVIDIA in AI inference

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions has reportedly raised $400 million in pre-IPO funding, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $850 million and its valuation to around $2.34 billion.

Mar 30, 2026

Mind

The worst part of people-pleasing may not be the exhaustion — it may be realizing that few people actually know you because you rarely gave them the real version

There is a particular kind of tiredness that people-pleasers know well.

Mar 30, 2026