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I'm 37. I run multiple websites read by tens of millions of people, I wrote a book about Buddhism, I built something that didn't exist when I started, and I still catch myself, more often than I'd like to admit, waiting.
I figured this out on a Tuesday.
A packed social life is often treated as a marker of a well-lived one.
Millions of people maintain disciplined daily meditation routines — twenty minutes each morning, breath-focused, consistent — and yet remain among the most emotionally reactive people in any room.
A Brussels court has reportedly ordered former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon to stand trial for alleged complicity in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister.
Google and Epic Games have settled their landmark antitrust case, replacing the flat 30% Play Store commission with tiered fees and creating official pathways for rival app stores — but the presiding judge's concerns about who actually benefits from the deal point to deeper questions about platform power.
I traced the ownership of the undersea cables carrying 95% of global internet traffic and found a map that mirrors colonial geography with unsettling precision — the same ports, the same routes, the same directional logic of extraction, now controlled by a handful of tech giants.
The feeling that upward mobility is impossible isn't a personal failing — it's a signal produced by layered systems of credentialing, housing, networks, and tax architecture designed to compound advantage for those who already have it.
Apple and Google face coordinated antitrust enforcement across North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, with regulators on four continents targeting the same structural concern: gatekeeping power over mobile ecosystems.
I’ve been trying to protect my attention lately—not in a dramatic, “digital detox” way, but in the realistic way most of us mean it: I want my brain to feel like it belongs to me again.
I’ve been thinking about the exact moment doomscrolling flips from “I’m just catching up” to “why do I feel weird in my body.” For me, it usually happens late at night in São Paulo, when the apartment is finally quiet.
I’ve noticed something in my own circle, even though most of us are nowhere near fifty yet.
