Writer at Silicon Canals

Nato Lagidze

Writer

Nato Lagidze is a writer and researcher at Silicon Canals with an academic background in psychology. Her coverage focuses on self-compassion, emotional intelligence, and the decision-making frameworks that govern how technology workers move through pressure. She writes for the Mind pillar and contributes culture and media reporting on the social forces shaping the industry.

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Technology

We picture the dark web as the internet’s underworld, but it was built by Navy researchers who understood a quiet truth — that anonymity only protects anyone if it protects everyone, including the people we’d rather it didn’t

In the mid-1990s, three researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory sat with a narrow, awkward problem: how do you hide the fact that intelligence communications are intelligence communications?

Jun 24, 2026

Mind

We give people a few days and expect them back as themselves, when the science of loss says grief takes no days off at all, and the shame around admitting that is its own quiet cruelty

If you are personally navigating loss and would like to speak with someone, the GriefShare directory can help you find local support groups and…

Jun 23, 2026

If you find yourself telling an AI things you’d never say to your partner, your therapist, or your best friend, you’re not broken — you’re just exhausted from performing

You already know this version of yourself.

May 20, 2026

Mind

Research suggests the problem with using AI as a therapist isn’t that it sounds wrong — it’s that it can sound right while still crossing serious ethical lines

A recent study summarized in a ScienceDaily report found that even when large language models were explicitly instructed to act like trained therapists and apply evidence-based methods, they still violated core ethical standards in mental health care.

May 12, 2026

Mind

Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting

A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and 98 percent of the link between IQ at 23 and socioeconomic status at 27 can be attributed to genetic factors.

May 12, 2026