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I’m 66 and my grandson asked me what we did before the internet and I started to answer and then stopped — because the honest answer is we were bored in ways that forced us to become interesting, and I don’t know how to explain that without sounding like I’m criticizing his entire world

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Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. My grandson looked up from his phone last weekend and asked me,...

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8 things lower-middle-class families always did the night before a big trip that wealthier families never had to think about

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Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Growing up outside Manchester, our family trips were rare and precious. I...

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I built a startup at 28, watched it fail at 29, and the loneliest part wasn’t losing the company — it was realizing that every friend I’d made in those two years was actually a business contact

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. The call came. My biggest investor was pulling out. After eighteen months...

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The 11 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of February 2026 – AlleyWatch

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New...

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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 3/2/26 – AlleyWatch

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

Gold crossed ,400 while the Fed signals stability. Central bank buying data tells the real confidence story

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Gold crossed $3,400 while the Fed signals stability. Central bank buying data tells the real confidence story

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Gold punched through $3,400 an ounce in April 2025. The Federal Reserve,...

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Psychology says the reason some people become extremely competent but quietly resentful is that they were rewarded for capability so early that they never learned the difference between being needed and being loved

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. There’s a particular kind of person who can walk into any room...

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Nobody tells you that the friendship that hurt the most to lose wasn’t the dramatic one — it was the one that faded so slowly you can’t point to the day it ended, just the day you noticed it was gone

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. There’s a box of birthday cards sitting in my closet that I...

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I spent a year inside the content moderation workforce in Nairobi and Manila — the human cost of making AI ‘safe’ is a class story nobody wants to tell

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. I need to tell you about a woman named Grace. That’s the...

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9 signs someone was raised by genuinely good parents, even if they never had much money