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Psychology says people who overshare with strangers??? the barista, the Uber driver, the person beside them on the plane??? aren't odd or inappropriately familiar, they're often starving for a conversation where someone actually listens
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (929+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. In a world of shallow connections, strangers on planes become unlikely therapists—and maybe that's exactly what we need. A woman on a flight out of Bangkok…...
Psychology says people who fill every spare moment with noise??? podcasts, playlists, background television??? aren't distracted or disorganised, they're often quietly managing a loneliness they haven't quite named yet
14+ hour, 37+ min ago (844+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. The constant hum of podcasts and playlists may feel like preference, but it might reveal something we're avoiding: the discomfort of our own company. The year I…...
The claim that people's welfare matters more than profit tangles two very different ideas: an empirical one, that treating staff well and making money usually go together, which the evidence supports, and a moral one, about which should win when they genuinely conflict
1+ day, 21+ min ago (165+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown When profits and worker welfare clash, the real debate begins—the first one about facts, the second about values. Put the two together and the first thing to notice is that the welfare-versus-profit framing is, most…...
Research suggests the generation that grew up in the 1960s and 70s wasn't hardened by trauma so much as tempered by ordinary difficulty??? the kind of low-level, unmanaged adversity that modern safety culture has almost completely removed from childhood
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (796+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. My uncle fell out of a mango tree at nine and broke his arm in two places. Nobody sued the tree. There was no incident report, no…...
Across 37,073 European Research Council applications, the same proposal scored higher with reviewers who shared the applicant's citizenship and country of work??? and that match moved the score about seven times as much as a shared gender did
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (520+ words) Edited by Christy Suriadi Two economists contracted by the ERC's own executive agency compared how a single proposal was scored by reviewers who matched the applicant and reviewers who did not. Sharing both citizenship and country of work moved the…...
???I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It???s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.?????? Robin Williams in World???s Greatest Dad
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (848+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. Loneliness in a crowded room cuts deeper than solitude ever could—and our culture of constant connection may be making it worse. There is a line from…...
People who cannot sit through a film without checking their phone aren't distracted, they've spent so many years being reachable that stillness now registers to their nervous system as something going wrong
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1185+ words) Edited by Justin Brown The reach for the phone mid-film is usually filed under distraction. A closer look suggests the body has learned, over years of being reachable, that stillness itself has become the uncomfortable state. What follows is a…...
Psychology says people who stopped reaching out because they didn't want to be a burden aren't being selfless??? they internalised, very early, the idea that their need for connection was too much, and they have been quietly paying for it ever since
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (554+ words) Edited by Daniel Moran The people who stopped initiating contact aren't being considerate—they're following a decades-old wound disguised as a virtue. Ask someone why they stopped texting first and you tend to get the same answer, delivered with a…...
Psychology says people who feel genuinely restored after time in nature aren't indulgent or avoidant???they're often carrying a sensitivity that the built world was never designed to accommodate and the natural world never asks them to hide
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (936+ words) Edited by Daniel Moran For the highly sensitive, nature isn't an escape from life—it's the only place the world doesn't demand they turn themselves down. Some people come back from two days in the hills looking like a different…...
Psychology says the kindest people you will ever meet aren't naive or soft??? they are often people who have experienced real pain in life and made a conscious choice not to pass it on to others
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (795+ words) Edited by Daniel Moran Suffering doesn't soften people into kindness by default; research suggests the gentlest among us made an active choice to break the cycle of pain they endured. There is a person everyone has met at least once....