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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.
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 noticed something in my own circle, even though most of us are nowhere near fifty yet.
“Single and thriving” is one of those phrases that sounds like closure: a neat explanation for why life feels good as-is.
The first time I really noticed how “food” can behave like a product designed to override your good sense was during one of those São Paulo weekdays that runs on rails.
