I’m 37 and I realized last year that I’ve been measuring my worth by how useful I am to people — and I genuinely don’t know who I am when few people need me
I figured this out on a Tuesday.
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Research suggests happier people keep fewer friends — not from antisocial tendencies but from refusing to tolerate draining relationships
A packed social life is often treated as a marker of a well-lived one.
Morning meditation alone does not reduce reactivity — neuroscience suggests stillness must be found inside chaos, not before it
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 93-year-old Belgian diplomat will stand trial for the 1961 assassination of Congo's first prime minister
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 settle landmark antitrust case with tiered fees and rival app stores — but judge questions who really benefits
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 who owns the undersea cables that carry 95% of global internet traffic — the map is a colonial one
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.
There's a reason upward mobility feels impossible — the infrastructure that ensures it
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 simultaneous antitrust actions across four continents
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.
New study confirms: even ignored notifications can throw off your attention
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.
The cognitive damage of doomscrolling is measurable and it can look like anxiety
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.
A relationship study finds what actually raises happiness after 50: cohabiting vs marrying
I’ve noticed something in my own circle, even though most of us are nowhere near fifty yet.
The “single and thriving” story has a darker second half
“Single and thriving” is one of those phrases that sounds like closure: a neat explanation for why life feels good as-is.