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People raised by very demanding and critical parents tend to carry two traits into adulthood above all, perfectionism and a harsh inner voice, though the research is c…

The scars of a critical upbringing are real but not inevitable—understanding the difference could free you from patterns you ...
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Cursor went from $100 million in annualized revenue to $2 billion in just 13 months—a twentyfold surge that outpaced the early growth of Slack and Zoom an…

Cursor’s reported revenue run rate multiplied twentyfold in 13 months, but the headline figure leaves accounting, margins and ...
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The people who never speak badly of others have a strength worth naming, and a blind spot worth watching

There is a particular kind of person we tend to admire without quite examining why: the one who never speaks badly about ...
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People who grew up with minimal affection often describe the same pattern in middle age: a delayed grief for something they didn't know they were missing until …

A few years ago I spent four days with a friend's family in a house outside Melbourne. On the second morning his daughter ...
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The famous limit of 150 friends a human brain can supposedly hold turns out to rest on a calculation whose own confidence interval runs from 2 to 520 — too wide to s…

The number 150 shows up in strange places for something that started as a footnote about primate brains. A Facebook executive ...