Navneet Shukla
Navneet Shukla writes about how people think and how modern life shapes that thinking. The Present Minds is where he explores it.
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Attention economy news cycle: when apple’s big week met the world’s worst oneAttention economy news cycle reached a kind of peak absurdity this week. On Monday morning, Tim Cook posted a short video to his social media accounts. Colourful…
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Indian creek island: why the world’s richest men are all moving to one placeIndian Creek Island is a 300-acre strip of man-made land in Biscayne Bay, Miami. It has 41 homes. Its own government. Its own police force that patrols…
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Why does nostalgia feel bittersweet? the science behind the acheWhy does nostalgia feel bittersweet? Because you are experiencing two things at once. The pleasure of remembering something good. And the ache of knowing it is gone.…
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What is Dharma in Hinduism: the one goal modern life makes almost impossibleTo understand why modern life sidelines it, we first have to answer a simple question: what is Dharma in Hinduism? Dharma is the most important of the…
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The world as we knew it, as of yesterday, is no moreKhamenei dead. Three words that would have seemed impossible yesterday. Three words that make February 28, 2026 a date that does not unhappen. By the time most…
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From near-bankruptcy to £112 Billion: the Rolls-Royce turnaround nobody saw comingRolls-Royce hit a record high on the London Stock Exchange today. Then it hit another one. It has been doing this virtually every trading day of 2026.…
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Bad Bunny Grammy win. the room will never be the same.Bad Bunny Grammy win wrote a new chapter in history on February 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. His album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which translates to "I…
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Zuckerberg in Court: the day social media addiction became a legal factSocial media addiction trial went live in Los Angeles on February 9, 2026. Not as a talking point. Not as a parental concern debated on morning television.…
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El Mencho is dead. now what?El Mencho is dead. On February 22, 2026, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the founder and leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known worldwide by his alias…
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The courage to be ordinaryThe courage to be ordinary sounds simple until you try to live it. There is a version of your life that exists only in comparison to other…
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The anxiety of being replaceableThe fear of being replaced at work rarely announces itself dramatically. You did not see a headline that triggered it. It arrived more quietly than that. A…
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Nobody trusts the future anymoreEconomic uncertainty is shaping adult life more quietly than most people realise.It is not that people are panicking. There is no single moment of crisis, no dramatic…
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Why do I feel like a background character in my own life?Why do I feel like a background character in my own life is probably a question that all of us have faced at some point in our…
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Why does everyone suddenly want to move abroad?Why everyone wants to move abroad in 2026? It feels like the question of the moment. Someone you know has left. Maybe it was a colleague who…
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The Illusion of free will in modern societyThe illusion of free will in modern society is the great unspoken reality of our time. We wake up, consume, and scroll, entirely convinced that we are…
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Why everything feels either right or wrong nowBinary thinking is what makes most days feel like a long row of small switches. You say yes or no to a message. You swipe left or…
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Do Jellyfish Sleep? what scientists found changes everything about restDo Jellyfish Sleep? A jellyfish does not have a brain. No cortex. No hippocampus. No circadian clock ticking behind two eyes. Just a translucent bell, a nerve…
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Sheffield boy flies abroad because the train made no senseThe platform was ordinary. Grey floor. Faded signage. People standing with bags that looked heavier than they should be. A phone came out. A price was checked.…
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