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 educated themselves through curiosity instead of classrooms can solve problems in a different way — and these 8 habits explain why formal education may not replicate it

While classrooms teach you to avoid confusion and follow prescribed paths, those who learned through pure curiosity developed eight counterintuitive habits that make them approach problems like jazz musicians instead of classical performers – improvising solutions in ways that formal education accidentally trains out of us.

Feb 26, 2026

Mind

Why some people replay conversations in their head for hours after they happen

If you replay conversations in your head for hours, neuroscience suggests your brain is running a powerful social simulation engine — one built for connection, not self-punishment. Here's what the research reveals and how to break the loop.

Feb 26, 2026

Mind

The strange relief of finally admitting you may not have been the difficult one in your family — you may have been the one who noticed everything

If you were labeled the "difficult" or "too sensitive" one in your family, research suggests you may have been the one responding most accurately to dysfunction everyone else had agreed to ignore — and recognizing that can be quietly transformative.

Feb 25, 2026

Mind

There is a particular loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people who love you but don’t understand you, and no amount of gratitude makes it go away

Being deeply loved and deeply unseen at the same time is one of the most disorienting forms of loneliness — and no amount of gratitude resolves the gap between being cared for and being truly known.

Feb 25, 2026

Mind

Why the calmest person in the room is often the one who has already survived the thing other people is afraid of

The calmest person in any room isn't wired differently — they've usually already survived the scenario everyone else is catastrophizing about, and that experience has fundamentally rewired how their brain processes threat.

Feb 25, 2026

Mind

8 things people with old souls find exhausting about modern life that others don’t seem bothered by

While everyone else seems to thrive in today's fast-paced, always-connected world, you're secretly exhausted by things that don't even register as problems for others — and there's a profound reason why.

Feb 25, 2026

Mind

9 pieces of advice from people who are genuinely at peace with their life—and every single one sounds too simple to matter until you actually try it

The people who radiate genuine contentment aren't meditating for hours or following complex life systems — they're just doing ridiculously simple things the rest of us dismiss as too basic to work.

Feb 24, 2026

Technology

Why Europe’s AI talent is staying home instead of moving to Silicon Valley

Europe's AI researchers are increasingly choosing to stay put rather than move to Silicon Valley, driven by better local funding, quality-of-life advantages, geopolitical shifts, and a maturing institutional ecosystem that finally makes staying the rational choice.

Feb 24, 2026

Mind

The calmest people in the room are often the ones who have already survived what other people is still afraid of

Psychology reveals that the most composed people in high-stress situations aren't naturally unflappable — they've often survived the very things everyone else is still afraid of, and that survival has fundamentally rewired how their brains process threat.

Feb 24, 2026

Mind

People who drink alone after losing a spouse may not be choosing alcohol over healing. They may be reaching for one ritual that still gives the day a shape.

The glass on the kitchen counter at 7pm isn't a cry for help — it's a desperate attempt to rebuild a structure that grief has completely dismantled.

Feb 24, 2026

Mind

8 things people with rare emotional depth do in relationships that surface-level people find strange

While others frantically fill silences and dodge uncomfortable truths, emotionally deep people navigate relationships with an intensity that feels like watching someone breathe underwater—natural to them, impossible to comprehend for everyone else.

Feb 22, 2026

Mind

The art of needing less: 8 habits of people who stopped chasing happiness and accidentally found it

They've discovered the paradox that changed everything: the happiest people aren't the ones with the most—they're the ones who've mastered the radical art of needing less.

Feb 21, 2026