The meditation teacher didn't own a smartphone. What struck me was her explanation: "I can't afford to outsource my boredom." She meant it literally. Boredom was where she met herself. The slight discomfort of waiting in line, riding the bus, sitting with tea—these were the gaps where insight emerged, where she noticed what she actually felt beneath the noise. By filling those gaps with scrolling, she'd be trading self-knowledge for distraction, sovereignty for stimulation. I

A toddler stumbles, and in the microseconds before response, the child's nervous system queries the room—not consciously, but older than thought, faster than language. What returns isn't instruction but resonance. The caregiver's face, breath, the quality of space they hold. The child's system decides whether to code this as catastrophe or navigation. This isn't learned. It's caught, the way one flame lights another. We talk about teaching children, but what we're really doin

When an 800-year-old baobab tree in Senegal's village of Niodior finally fell, the community gathered for seven nights. Each person added a stone to a growing cairn while sharing stories of what the tree had witnessed—births, marriages, conflicts resolved beneath its canopy, the drought that had weakened its roots. By the final night, grief had transformed into collective acknowledgment that bearing witness together made the unbearable somehow bearable. This instinct to gathe

Mexico has reached a significant milestone, by ranking among the Top Ten Happiest countries in the world, according to the World Happiness Report 2025,  a recognition that underscores the importance of well-being in our society. In this context, the concept of “digital happiness” takes on special relevance, as it describes how digital technologies influence people's happiness and well-being. Individual perceptions of digital happiness depend on how strongly technology contrib

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