You’re 35. Someone raises their voice and suddenly you’re 7 years old again, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to disappear. Your brain is literally reverting to the age you were when the original wound happened.

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU found…

We are all self-deluded in various ways. Most self-delusions can be harmful, but some are positively beneficial.

She literally explains how to never hear your negative thoughts again (in 2 mins)

2026 is the year of microdesign.

Microdesign is design that was never meant to be noticed. Bread clips. Receipts. Care labels. Luggage tags. Guest checks. The things you touch a hundred times without ever really seeing them

It goes by many names -- ephemera…

I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away?

Then I read a paper by Anthropic and…

"Everybody wants third spaces until a homeless guy shows up"

Your visual cortex burns 44% of your brain's energy budget. Turning off the lights in the shower is the fastest way to slash that load to near zero.

Your brain is 2% of your body weight but burns 20% of your total energy. Visual processing alone eats almost…

Competition is largely an illusion. 95% of people don't even try to do great things. 0.1% of the people are loud, so you overestimate how many people there are. The rest get stuck worrying about competition and quitting after 2 weeks.

Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force.

Or, one cheer for LLMs.