For some people, the loneliest moment of the week may not be Friday night alone — it may be Sunday afternoon surrounded by family they struggle to be honest with
I want to tell you about a specific Sunday in 2018, in my parents' kitchen in London.
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There’s a certain type of boomer who treats unsolicited opinions as a love language — and may be genuinely confused when their adult children seem distant
When people talk about the gulf between adult children and their boomer parents, they usually frame it as a story about cruelty, or coldness, or some failure of empathy on one side or the other.
Black coffee drinkers may not be more disciplined — they may have developed a learned association between bitterness and stimulation, often driven by faster caffeine metabolism
There's a particular look that passes between people in a café when one person orders a black coffee and the other orders an oat milk vanilla latte.
Retirement may not be hard because of the empty hours — it may be hard because the silence finally meets the feelings work kept at bay
We have been listening, lately, to people in their first year or two out of the workforce.
The most painful thing about having parents who love you but don’t quite know you is that they may spend years describing a son they invented to people who may not meet the one you actually became.
The cousin called on a Tuesday.
There’s a certain type of son who loves his father deeply but may struggle to sit in a room alone with him for more than twenty minutes
I have noticed, over a long time, that there is a twenty-minute limit on the kind of conversation I can have alone in a room with my father.
Quote by Voltaire: “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one”
I had a friend in New York, years ago, who was certain about everything.
AI job displacement is hitting knowledge workers first, upending assumptions that white-collar roles were safest from automation
For most of the last century, the story of automation went something like this.
True class and financial wealth have almost no correlation
If you spend any time watching people with very different amounts of money move through the same social spaces, you stop believing the script most of us were given.
The rise of the generalist: why breadth is becoming the real competitive advantage in an AI-driven economy
According to the World Economic Forum, 39% of core skills will change by 2030. Nearly half of what employers value today will be outdated within a few years.
Why adults without close friends aren't antisocial — childhood taught them vulnerability equals pain
From the outside, adults without close friends often look self-sufficient, comfortable alone, perhaps even admirably independent.
High intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make
Here's a finding that stopped me cold: a 2012 study out of Yale found that people with the highest science literacy weren't the most aligned on contested facts.