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Silicon Canals is an independent publication covering global innovation ecosystems through three pillars: Technology, Politics, and Mind. Published by Brown Brothers Media.
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Psychology says people who wait to feel motivated before they start aren't lazy - they have the sequence backwards, and behavioural research has said the same thing since Peter Lewinsohn's work in 1974
Waiting to feel motivated can become a quiet rule: no action until enough energy, confidence or readiness has arrived. From the outside, the delay may look like laziness. From the inside, it often feels like responsible timing. Behavioural research offers
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Kurt Cobain thought "Smells Like Teen Spirit" sounded like a line about revolution, so he used it as Nirvana's title without asking where it came from - it was graffiti Kathleen Hanna had scrawled on his wall as a joke about a deodorant his girlfriend wore, and it became the name of the defining anthem of a generation
Sometime in 1990, a slightly drunk Kathleen Hanna picked up a marker during a night out with Kurt Cobain in Olympia, Washington, and wrote three words on his apartment wall as a joke between friends: "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit." Hanna, who fronted the
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Quote of the day by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: "We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
There is a certain kind of self-talk I have caught myself using for years. The version of me who wants to fix a bad habit, or a bad mood, usually opens with an insult. You should have known better. Why are you like this. Get it together. The logic feels a
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Sylvester Stallone asked Queen for "Another One Bites the Dust" as the Rocky III theme and was turned down - so he called an unknown band called Survivor, and "Eye of the Tiger," written as a replacement for a song he couldn't have, outsold almost everything Queen released that decade
In early 1982, a struggling Chicago rock band received the strangest voicemail in music history. Jim Peterik of Survivor came home, saw the blinking light on his answering machine - still a novelty back then - and pressed play. "Hey, yo, Jim. That's a nic
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"Donnie Darko" was rejected by every major distributor, then released just six weeks after 9/11 with a jet engine crashing into a teenager's bedroom at the center of its story - it earned barely $500,000, vanished from cinemas and became a generational obsession only after teenagers discovered it on DVD
Some movies are ahead of their time. "Donnie Darko" managed something stranger: it arrived at precisely the worst moment in modern history for its own plot. Richard Kelly's debut - a moody, time-bending story about a troubled teenager, a six-foot rabbit n
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