Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Startups
The idea that Gen Z is lazy misreads the data: full-time workers aged 20 to 24 averaged 40.5 hours a week, and visible enthusiasm is not the same as effort
The 74% figure is real, but it does not mean what the lazy-Gen-Z argument needs it to mean. ResumeBuilder reported...
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The 7 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of July 2026 – AlleyWatch
New York’s startup ecosystem had another strong month in July 2026, with founders across finance, AI, travel, and healthcare pulling...
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People who can’t finish a book they aren’t enjoying aren’t lacking discipline, they’ve quietly figured out that the years remaining are shorter than the years behind, and finishing things out of obligation has stopped feeling like virtue
There is a specific kind of freedom that arrives, usually somewhere in the middle of life, when a person closes...
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Taking responsibility runs against a built-in bias: we tend to claim our successes and blame circumstances for our failures, and the real skill is owning the part we actually controlled, neither none of it nor all of it
Taking responsibility is one of those virtues we treat as simple. You either own your part or you make excuses,...
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A 2022 study tracking university students’ daily experiences for a week found introversion predicted neither preference for nor enjoyment of solitude, while a separate trait, dispositional autonomy, consistently predicted who found time alone enjoyable
The assumption that introverts are the ones who genuinely enjoy time alone, while everyone else merely tolerates it, is common...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/3/26 – 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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The 5am morning routine gets sold as the habit that separates successful people from everyone else, but a genetic study of nearly 700,000 people suggests whether you are a morning person is largely written into your biology
There is a genre of advice that never seems to go out of fashion: the morning routine of a successful...
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A study asked pairs of strangers to skip small talk and answer deeply personal questions instead, and the conversations they had most dreaded turned out to be the ones they least wanted to end.
There is a particular moment in a conversation with someone new when you can feel a more interesting question arrive...
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The 10 Most Active Investors in NYC Startups in Q2 2026 – AlleyWatch
New York City’s venture market produced $8.88 billion across 233 deals in Q2 2026 — the strongest second quarter in...
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Psychology says the reason competent, dependable people often feel invisible in their own families isn’t modesty, it’s that they became the person everyone relies on before anyone thought to ask what they needed
In many families, one person knows which bill is due, who will remember the birthday, what the doctor said, and...
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