The internet isn’t just like real life, a top VC says — it is real life. For a16z, that’s not philosophy, it’s an investment
The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. ...
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Tag: Isnt
I’m 37 and I just realized that the reason I have no close friends isn’t because I’m hard to love — it’s because I learned young that needing people was dangerous
Last week, I sat across from a colleague at lunch, listening to him talk about his weekend plans with his ...
4 Reasons Your Tariff Refund Isn’t Coming — and What to Do About It
You’ve heard the news. The Supreme Court killed the tariffs. The government owes $166 billion in refunds. And as of ...
Psychology says the most isolating part of getting older isn’t having fewer people around you — it’s having fewer people who knew you when you were whole and fast and full of plans, because the version of you that exists in other people’s memory is shrinking at the same rate as the guest list, and one day you’ll be the only person alive who remembers what you were capable of
I used to think the hardest part about getting older would be the physical stuff. The knees that complain when ...
Psychology says people who need to finish the chapter before they can put the book down aren’t obsessive — their brain treats an unfinished narrative the same way it treats an unresolved argument, as an open loop that will consume background processing power until it closes, and that inability to stop mid-chapter isn’t about the book, it’s about a mind that cannot rest inside something incomplete
Picture this: it’s midnight, you have an early meeting tomorrow, but you’re 20 pages from the end of a chapter. ...
People who grew up in houses where money was a source of tension often become adults who can afford things comfortably but still feel a small flinch at the register, and the flinch isn’t financial anymore, it’s a nervous system that never got the memo that the emergency is over.
You’re standing at a self-checkout in a supermarket. The scanner beeps through your items, the total climbs past what you ...
The forgotten generation isn’t the young people struggling to find their place in the world — it’s the retirees sitting in fully paid-off houses with lifetimes of experience, waiting for a phone call that the modern world no longer knows it’s supposed to make
Last week, I found myself sitting in my neighbor’s living room, surrounded by framed photographs spanning seven decades. The afternoon ...
What the data isn’t showing about credit stress
The recent difficulties at Goeasy Ltd. give a hint of those troubles, after the subprime lender reported hundreds of millions ...
Volatility Isn’t Temporary — Account For It In Your Leadership Playbook Going Forward
For many B2B leaders, volatility no longer feels like an interruption to “normal.” It is now the standard operating environment. ...
There’s a type of person who only feels permission to rest when they’re physically sick, and the illness isn’t the problem. The problem is the invisible equation they absorbed decades ago that says rest must be earned through suffering and a healthy body has no valid claim to stillness.
Sickness is the only socially acceptable form of rest in most families, and the people who absorbed that lesson earliest ...
Get the latest news and follow the coverage of Business & Financial News, Stock Market Updates, Analysis, and more from the trusted sources.