Monday, June 8, 2026
Startups
I’m 37 and I realized last month that I haven’t had a real conversation with anyone other than my spouse in over a year — not because I’m antisocial but because every friendship I had required me to perform a version of myself I don’t have the energy for anymore
Last month I was sitting on our balcony here in Saigon, watching the motorbikes swarm through the intersection below, and...
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My father grew up in the 1960s and he’s the toughest man I know — not because he’s never been broken, but because I have never once seen him stay broken, and the speed with which he gets back up has always looked to me less like strength and more like a man who was simply never taught that staying down was an option
There’s a particular sound a man makes when he’s trying to hold it together in front of his kids. It’s...
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Airbase Raises $5M to Modernize the Invisible Wireless Infrastructure Powering Trillions in GDP – AlleyWatch
America’s $4.5T wireless infrastructure faces a critical coordination bottleneck. While devices competing for radio spectrum have exploded, from 5G towers...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 3/30/26 – 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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People who laugh at their own pain before anyone else can aren’t resilient. They’ve simply learned that if they get to the joke first, nobody gets to decide whether it was serious, and that preemptive deflection has been protecting something very specific since childhood.
Self-deprecating humor about your own suffering is one of the most socially rewarded forms of avoidance ever invented. People call...
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Psychology says the reason some people become wiser as they age while others become more rigid has nothing to do with intelligence. It depends on whether they ever learned to sit with discomfort
One has this quiet depth to them. They’ve softened around the edges. They hold space for complexity, for other people’s...
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The real story behind 45,000 tech layoffs: where the money actually goes
The tech sector continues to experience significant workforce reductions, and the framing war over why is arguably more revealing than...
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I’ve noticed that the moment I stop trying to impress someone is the exact moment they start leaning in and asking real questions — like people can smell performance from a mile away even if they can’t name what feels off
I’ve noticed this for years but only recently had language for it. The moment I stop trying to impress someone...
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Psychology says people who seem genuinely happy aren’t people who have more – they’re people who stopped measuring what they have against what they imagined they should have by now
There is a version of your life that exists only in your head. You didn’t consciously design it — it...
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I’m 37 and I just caught myself apologizing to a waiter for sending back the wrong order – and I realized I’ve been managing other people’s discomfort my entire adult life and calling it good manners
I was at a restaurant in Saigon last week, and the waiter brought me the wrong dish. It happens. He...
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