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Lachlan Brown
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

People who become genuinely happier after 60 didn’t suddenly fix their lives — they stopped waiting for external circumstances to give them permission to feel content with what already exists

While research reveals that genuinely happy people after 60 didn't achieve more or fix their circumstances, they discovered a counterintuitive truth about contentment that most of us spend decades missing—and it has nothing to do with retirement, wealth, or checking off bucket lists.

Mind

I used to start every day by opening my laptop before I had finished my coffee and by 9am I had already responded to eleven other people’s priorities and had not spent a single minute on my own — and I did that for six years and called it work ethic before I understood it was the most effective way I had ever found to avoid the discomfort of deciding what I actually wanted

The day I realized my inbox had become my most sophisticated procrastination tool—a place where I could hide from my own dreams while looking impossibly productive—was the day everything changed.