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Lachlan Brown
Writer at Silicon Canals

Lachlan Brown

Co-Publisher

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 keep every birthday card, every handwritten note, and every photograph in a labeled box often aren’t just sentimental, many grew up in households where evidence of being loved had to be stored somewhere it couldn’t be taken back

The labeled box of cards and photographs in the closet rarely tells the story people assume. It's not sentimentality — it's evidence-keeping, built by someone who learned early that affection could be revised, and the only way to be sure it had happened was to keep it somewhere it couldn't be taken back.

May 9, 2026
Mind

The adults who were raised with very little affection don’t grow up unable to love, they grow up suspicious of the love that finally arrives, and the warmth a partner offers them at thirty or forty often gets quietly held at arm’s length, not because they don’t want it, but because the body that didn’t learn how to receive affection at six is still trying to figure out the choreography at fifty

The cruelest paradox of human connection: those who needed love most as children often spend their adult lives physically tensing up when it finally arrives, their bodies still protecting them from a danger that existed decades ago.

May 3, 2026