A woman on a flight out of Bangkok once told me, somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, that she had not spoken to her sister in eleven years. We had been airborne about forty minutes. I knew her drink...
Discipline is usually presented as a down payment on happiness. Resist now, persist now, choose the harder option now, and a better emotional life is supposed to arrive later.
That sequence feels intuitive partly because disciplined people often do report...
Read other people’s eyes, the saying goes, because the eyes never lie. It is an old and romantic idea, the eyes as the window to the soul, and like a lot of folk wisdom it is half true in...
Articles about the habits that destroy relationships usually offer a grab-bag of plausible-sounding clichés. Relationship science has been more precise than that. Thanks largely to decades of work by the psychologist John Gottman, who spent years watching couples interact...
Soft living is the wellness world’s pushback against the militaristic morning routine, the five o’clock start, the cold plunge, the twenty-step optimisation ritual performed before dawn. In its place it offers something gentler: an unhurried, kind, low-pressure start to...
The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy, and illegally collecting their information. The defendants were accused of violating a law requiring online services aimed at children to obtain parental consent...
There is a kind of composure that comes from understanding a feeling, and another that comes from making sure nobody can see it. From the outside, the two can look identical. Inside the person, they are different psychological events.
A...
The Alps are not large by continental standards. The Alpine Convention covers roughly 200,000 square kilometres, while the conventional geographical area assigned to Europe is about 10.2 million square kilometres. Using those boundaries, the mountain region occupies just under...
Concrete is a difficult material to turn into a software product. Every foundation has to carry real loads, comply with building standards and survive for decades, while conventional construction still depends on formwork, crews, deliveries and weather. Hyperion Robotics...
Retirement removes more than work. It also removes the people a working day places within reach without anyone having to make a plan: the colleague at the next desk, the familiar face in the kitchen, the person who always...
