Startups

March 16, 2026

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...

Startups

I’m 38 and I ended my coffee routine with a male colleague not because anything happened, but because I caught myself putting on lipstick in the car beforehand and realized I hadn’t done that for my husband in years

March 16, 2026

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Research suggests that one of the behavioral indicators of where someone’s emotional...

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I asked 10 people what they’d do with a completely free day and no obligations and seven of them couldn’t answer — not because they didn’t have ideas but because the question itself caused a kind of panic, and that panic is the thing I can’t stop thinking about

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I’m 70 and I just realized the reason I never respected my father wasn’t because he was a bad person — it was because I watched him let my mother carry everything, and somewhere around age twelve I decided that men who don’t show up are just furniture with feelings, and I’ve carried that contempt into every relationship I’ve ever had

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Just last week I was cleaning out the garage when I found...

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I stopped trying to explain my boundaries and started just having them. The people who needed the explanation were never going to respect the boundary. They needed the explanation so they could argue with it.

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. For most of my adult life, I believed that a boundary only...

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The hardest conversation in a 40-year marriage isn’t about infidelity or money or the children — it’s the one where someone finally says “I don’t think you actually know me” and the other person can’t argue because they realize the version of you they married was updated so slowly they never noticed the original was gone

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Three weeks ago, my wife and I were cleaning out the attic....

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8 things that happen to your sense of self in the first year of retirement that nobody tells you in advance

March 14, 2026

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. You retire on a Friday, and by Monday morning you’re standing in...

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I retired into a neighborhood full of people I’d lived beside for twenty years and realized I didn’t actually know a single one of them

March 14, 2026

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. I retired six months ago, and last week something hit me like...

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The real reason a boomer’s wallet is three inches thick and held together with a rubber band isn’t disorganization—every card, receipt, photo, and folded note in there is a filing system for a life that was built before anything could be stored in a cloud, and that wallet is the last physical archive of a person who doesn’t trust the invisible

March 14, 2026