Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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You blame Visa and Mastercard for the swipe fee, but they keep almost none of it — the fat cut, called interchange, flows straight to the bank that issued your card, and it barely exists in the countries that built their own payment rails
When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee,...
Read moreDetailsThought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: “The wise man is self-sufficient. Nevertheless, he desires friends, neighbours, and associates, no matter how much he is sufficient unto himself.”
When I first arrived in Vietnamm more than a decade ago, my calendar filled up fast. There was a big...
Read moreDetailsThe Company We Wish Existed
People often ask me what motivated me to build York IE. The answer is pretty simple: I lived the startup...
Read moreDetailsRylo Raises $85M to Give 48M Americans with Hearing Loss Private, Independent Communication – AlleyWatch
For the 48 million Americans living with hearing loss, a phone call has never been a private act: for decades,...
Read moreDetailsPeople who spend a few minutes several times a week writing down what they’re grateful for tend to report higher well-being, better sleep, and more prosocial behavior
A note on what follows: we are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians or psychologists. These are patterns...
Read moreDetailsThe 10 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of June 2026 – AlleyWatch
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New...
Read moreDetailsPsychology says people who light up every room they enter aren’t naturally cheerful or born confident — they’re usually the ones who decided, somewhere along the way, that other people deserved to feel seen
We tend to assume the people who light up every room were simply born that way: naturally sunny, effortlessly confident,...
Read moreDetailsThe Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/6/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
Read moreDetailsPsychology says the people who read everything on social media but never post anything are not the shy ones or the antisocial ones — they are usually the most careful observers in the room, and they have learned that watching quietly gives them information about other people that speaking would immediately take away
The population of people who use social media without posting is much larger than most active posters realise. The Pew...
Read moreDetailsIn 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90...
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