Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Startups
We give people a few days and expect them back as themselves, when the science of loss says grief takes no days off at all, and the shame around admitting that is its own quiet cruelty
The average bereavement policy in Europe gives employees somewhere between three and five days for the death of an immediate...
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Psychology suggests that people who fear AI are often not only afraid of the technology itself — they’re afraid of what it threatens to erase: the status, competence, identity, and sense of usefulness they spent years building.
In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were...
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I asked AI to show me a picture of my future kids, and learned a harsh lesson in how technology shows us what we want to see, not what’s real
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is,...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/22/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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McKinsey’s 2025 global AI survey: 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one function, up from 78% — but most are still stuck in pilot mode, and only a minority can point to any real impact on profit
Two numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 survey sit awkwardly next to each other. The first is 88 percent, the share of...
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The oldest known written customer complaint is a 3,750-year-old clay tablet from ancient Ur, where a furious customer named Nanni accused the merchant Ea-nasir of delivering sub-standard copper — proof that bad reviews are almost as old as writing itself
In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is...
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5 concepts that completely changed how I think about focus and productivity
I had a morning recently that, on paper, should have been a good one. Clear calendar, a piece due, coffee...
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Juggling several tasks at once feels efficient, but researchers have found that each switch quietly costs time and accuracy — via hidden mental stages of shifting goals and reloading rules that compound
Here’s how many of my mornings go. I sit down to write, open the research tab, and start reading for...
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AlphaSense Raises $350M as Enterprises Shift to AI-Driven Research and Decision-Making Workflows – AlleyWatch
The ability to make critical business decisions has always depended on access to the right information at the right moment...
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I let Chat GPT plan my workdays down to the minute for a week — the shock wasn’t my output, it was realizing how much of my old schedule had been performance
By eleven fifteen on the second day, the morning’s writing was done. Not done-for-now, will-come-back-when-I’m-braver. Actually done. The schedule the...
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