Tag: Modern Behaviour
Hustle culture is dead. what killed it?
Hustle culture is dead. had a good run. For roughly a decade, the grind was the gospel. Wake up at 5am. Optimise every hour. Sleep when you are dead. Your LinkedIn profile was your altar. Your productivity system was your prayer. The corner office was the promised land. Then something shifted. Not quietly. Loudly, measurably,…
Why humans need to explore: the psychology behind every big ambition
The psychology of exploration is not a niche academic subject. It is the study of a drive so fundamental to the human brain that neuroscientists can trace it to the same dopaminergic systems that regulate hunger and reproduction. It is older than language, older than civilisation, older than any of the specific things human beings…
Why south asian parents don’t say I love you
Why South Asian parents don’t say I love you is one of those questions that gets asked in hushed tones, usually between friends who grew up in the same kind of house, usually after a few drinks, usually with a laugh that has something else underneath it. You know the house. The one where love…
Attention economy news cycle: when apple’s big week met the world’s worst one
Attention 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 Apple logo. The hashtag #AppleLaunch. A teaser for what he called a big week ahead, with at least five new products rolling out across three days, culminating in…
Why does nostalgia feel bittersweet? the science behind the ache
Why 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. Both hit at the same time. That is not a glitch. That is the whole point. Nostalgia is experienced several times a week by most adults. It is…
This week’s good news the algorithm did not show you
Good news this week is buried under the usual avalanche of conflict, politics and economic anxiety. Which means most of the genuinely hopeful things that happened in the last seven days never made your feed. Here they are. The blindness epidemic nobody talks about is retreating Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.…
The world as we knew it, as of yesterday, is no more
Khamenei 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 people woke up this morning, the United States and Israel had launched a major joint military operation against Iran. Hundreds of strikes. Explosions across Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Kermanshah.…
From near-bankruptcy to £112 Billion: the Rolls-Royce turnaround nobody saw coming
Rolls-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. This morning the company announced underlying operating profit of £3.46 billion for 2025, a 40 percent increase on the previous year and ahead of every analyst forecast. It…
The world is getting better. here’s the proof.
Good news stories in 2026 are harder to find than they should be. Not because good things are not happening but because the human brain is wired to pay more attention to threats than progress. Slow, steady improvement does not trigger the same alarm response as crisis. The news cycle has a negativity problem. Not…
Did a philosopher predict the algorithm? Heidegger’s warning from 1954
Did a philosopher predict the Instagram/TikTok algorithm in the 1950s? Why do we treat our bodies as machines that we try to hack with supplements, diets, or medicines? Why does finding love in the modern age feel like sorting through a warehouse? Why do we treat everything around us, even humans, as commodities? These are…
