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Psychology says the reason you feel inexplicably sad on days when nothing bad happened is often because your nervous system is finally safe enough to process gri…

That wave of inexplicable sadness on a perfectly good day may be your nervous system finally feeling safe enough to process ...
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9 things every man who worked a trade for 30+ years knows about retirement that white-collar retirees usually learn the hard way

While office workers dream of golf and grandkids, tradesmen who've spent decades destroying their bodies for a paycheck ...
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I traced who profits every time you tap ‘I agree’ — the answer is a class system hiding in plain sight

I spent weeks tracing the chain of value that activates every time someone taps 'I agree' on a consent banner. What I found ...
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The global infrastructure of digital ID is being built right now — and nobody voted for it

A global infrastructure of digital identity is being built at extraordinary speed by governments, multilateral organizations, ...
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Psychology says the people who burn out fastest at work aren’t the ones doing the most. They’re the ones who never feel safe enough to do less.

Burnout's deepest roots aren't in workload. Psychology research increasingly points to the absence of psychological safety: ...
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The hardest part of healing isn’t facing what happened to you. It’s grieving the version of yourself that had to exist because of it.

Confronting painful memories takes courage. But the deeper, quieter work of healing is grieving the survival self you built, ...
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9 lessons people raised in working-class families carry into adulthood that no amount of career success fully replaces — because the values were never about money, the…

The warehouse worker who raised you knew something the CEO never will: that the colleague who helps you move matters more ...
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People who grew up translating adult emotions as children now read every room they walk into

Children who learned to decode their parents' moods before they could do long division often become adults with an invisible ...
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Neuroscience is beginning to explain why people who spend their workday on video calls feel a specific kind of loneliness that is different from actual isolation

Neuroscience reveals that video calls sit in a social uncanny valley, activating your brain's bonding systems without ever ...
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What research reveals about people who feel physically drained after checking their phone for twenty minutes but can hike for hours without fatigue

Scrolling for twenty minutes can leave you more exhausted than hours of hiking. Research on attention, dopamine, and neural ...
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I tracked how a single algorithmic decision in Singapore cascades into loan denials in Lagos and job rejections in São Paulo — this is what digital colonialism actually ...

I traced a single credit-scoring algorithm from a Singapore startup to loan denials in Lagos and job rejections in São Paulo, ...
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OpenAI closes $10B funding round as enterprise AI spending hits all-time high

OpenAI has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation, as global enterprise AI spending hits record ...