Monday, June 8, 2026
Startups
The real cost of letting AI do it for you
Researchers at MIT Media Lab hooked 54 people up to EEG headsets and watched their brains go quiet. The ones...
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Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren’t their fault aren’t being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else’s bad mood was always their responsibility to fix
When I was twelve and my parents divorced, I became fascinated with understanding why people behave the way they do....
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Psychology says adult children don’t grieve their aging parents all at once — they grieve them in a thousand tiny deaths, like the first time your mother forgets she told you the same story twice, or the afternoon you notice your father’s hands shaking when he signs his name
We talk about grief as though it only arrives after a death. The funeral, the casseroles, the sympathy cards, the...
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The quiet power of emotional intelligence at work
The quantifiable relationship between emotional intelligence and workplace outcomes has, over the past two decades, moved from the margins of...
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The loneliest people at any gathering are almost never the ones standing alone by the wall. They’re the ones laughing in the middle of the group who will drive home afterward in complete silence and not call anyone about it.
Most of our cultural understanding of loneliness is built around the wrong image. We picture the person eating alone, the...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 4/20/26 – 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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There’s a specific kind of person who volunteers the embarrassing story about themselves before anyone else can bring it up, and it isn’t self-deprecation. It’s copyright. If they tell it first, they get to decide what it means.
Most people hear someone tell an unflattering story about themselves and assume it’s humility, or at worst, a small bid...
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The people who say they don’t care what others think are almost never telling the whole truth. What they actually did was move the audience inward, and now they perform for a private version of the same judges they claim to have escaped.
The man at the next table is explaining, with a kind of practiced lightness, that he stopped caring what people...
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I’m 66 and I’ve realized that there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that belongs to people who spent four decades being the one who always said yes — it doesn’t show up as burnout, it shows up as a faint feeling that your life belongs to everyone except you
People will tell you burnout is the villain here. It isn’t. Burnout is what happens when the fire goes out....
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The 27 Largest US Funding Rounds of March 2024 – AlleyWatch
March 2026 was a month of conviction-scale capital across the US startup ecosystem. Leveraging data from CrunchBase, I’ve identified the...
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