Nobody talks about why the boomer generation seems so unfazed by things that flatten the rest of us, and it isn’t that they had it easier or that they’re emotionally shut down, it’s that they were raised to treat discomfort as weather, something you walk
I have a close friend whose mother is in her late seventies. She grew up in rural Victoria in the 1950s, one of five kids, father who worked the land, no central heating, no money to speak of. When something goes wrong in her life now, and things still go wrong, she does not spiral. […]
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Psychology says the people who can’t accept help without immediately offering something in return learned early that love came with an invoice attached
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Some people cannot receive a kindness without flinching.
Watch closely the next time you bring a friend dinner when they're sick, or pay for coffee unannounced, or offer to dr
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AI is so power-hungry that Meta is now buying electricity from space
Mark Zuckerberg’s company just made one of the most unusual energy deals in tech history. On April 27, Meta announced a first-of-its-kind agreement to source up to one gigawatt of electricity from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, energy that will eventually flow to the AI data centers that increasingly define its business. The partner is Overview […]
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25 years ago today, one man paid $20 million to become the first space tourist
On April 28, 2001, a sixty-year-old American businessman climbed into a Russian Soyuz capsule on a launchpad in Kazakhstan and rode it into orbit . He wasn’t a trained astronaut. He wasn’t on a government mission. He had simply written a very large cheque. His name was Dennis Tito, and twenty-five years ago today, he […]
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I’m 41 and I realized last weekend that the happiest hours of my childhood were spent doing absolutely nothing on a curb in summer, and I haven’t allowed myself an afternoon like that in thirty years
A space policy analyst sits on his front steps for the first time in three decades and discovers that doing nothing might be the most countercultural act left to a 41-year-old.
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The Governance Architecture on Trial: What Musk v. OpenAI Reveals About Nonprofit-to-Commercial Pivots
Elon Musk is suing the company he helped found for $134 billion. He also happens to own its largest competitor. That uncomfortable fact sits at the center of the trial that opened in San Francisco this week, where Musk is asking a court to remove Sam Altman, unwind OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, and block its planned […]
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The quiet truth about long marriages is that infidelity without guilt usually isn’t the first betrayal, it’s the second, and the first one was committed in slow motion by both people over many ordinary years
The dramatic betrayal that ends a long marriage is almost always the second one. The first happened so slowly that neither person noticed they were committing it.
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Forget the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon’s next chokepoint problem could be on the way to the moon
When Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, energy markets twitched and global headlines lit up. A narrow stretch of water, a handful of tankers, and suddenly the world economy was holding its breath. Now imagine the same chokepoint dynamic playing out a quarter of a million miles away. That comparison […]
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Psychology says people who rehearse phone calls before making them aren’t anxious, they grew up in a house where saying the wrong thing meant the conversation got used against them later
What looks like phone anxiety is often something more specific: a learned vigilance about verbal evidence, built in households where words got recycled as ammunition. The rehearsal isn't a symptom — it's a strategy.
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I’m 41 and I caught myself analyzing why I was crying instead of just crying, and I realized I’ve been doing that at every funeral of my life
The habit of watching yourself grieve instead of grieving has a name, a history, and a cost that takes decades to come due.
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