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August 7, 2026

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I realized at 66 that the reason I’m always tired has nothing to do with sleep. I’ve been running an internal monitoring system since childhood that tracks other people’s moods, and it never shuts off, not even when I’m alone.

The most rested I’ve ever been on paper was also the most tired I’ve ever felt in my body. That...

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The 21 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of Q1 2026 – AlleyWatch

Armed with data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC startup funding rounds for Q1 2026....

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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 4/13/26 – 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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My mother still introduces me to people as her baby and I used to find it embarrassing and now I let her because I understand that the introducing is not about me at all — it is about a woman in her 70s who still has her baby, and that is something worth letting her have

My mother turned seventy-eight last month, and she still calls me her baby. Not when we’re alone, mind you. That...

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I’m in my 30s and the thing I understand now that I couldn’t at 22 is that the people I was most desperate to impress were the ones least capable of seeing me clearly. The approval I chased hardest was always from people who didn’t have the emotional equipment to give it, and recognizing that changed everything.

It was a Tuesday afternoon in a seminar room at the University of Sydney, and my supervisor had just handed...

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I retired two years ago and the part nobody warned me about isn’t the boredom or the loss of purpose. It’s that the friendships I thought were mine actually belonged to the job, and the job took them when it left.

Last Tuesday I scrolled to Mike Brennan’s name in my phone. Thumb hovered over it for a good ten seconds....

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I’m 37 and I finally figured out that vulnerability isn’t saying something brave in a room full of strangers – it’s telling the person who matters most that you’re not okay and meaning it

I’ve written about vulnerability for a living. I’ve quoted Brene Brown. I’ve referenced the research on emotional openness and relationship...

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There’s a generation of people who were taught to apologize for their needs so effectively that as adults they experience wanting something as a form of aggression against whoever might have to provide it

Last week I watched a woman at the hardware store apologize four times for asking where the wood glue was....

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The people who apologize the fastest in any disagreement aren’t the most empathetic people in the room. They’re the ones who learned early that conflict had a cost they couldn’t afford, and the apology isn’t resolution, it’s a payment to make the danger stop.

Keely Dugan was studying data from over 1,300 people who’d been tracked since infancy when she found something that stopped...

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The cruelest part of being exhausted for no reason is that you start to distrust yourself. If the bloodwork is fine and the sleep is adequate and the schedule isn’t punishing, then the only remaining explanation is that something is wrong with how you’re built. And living inside that suspicion is its own kind of tired.