🦄 Startups & VC 1d ago · Daniel Moran

Psychology says people who find it almost impossible to sleep when something is unresolved — a conversation left hanging, a decision unmade — may not simply be anxious by nature; the brain tends to keep unfinished experiences mentally active, replaying them when the distractions of the day disappear

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Psychology says people who find it almost impossible to sleep when something is unresolved — a conversation left hanging, a decision unmade — may not simply be anxious by nature; the brain tends to keep unfinished experiences mentally active, replaying them when the distractions of the day disappear

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There is a specific flavour of 2am that I have come to know intimately. The fan is turning. The street below has gone quiet in the way Bangkok streets only manage for about ninety minutes a night. And I am lying there running the same eleven seconds of a conversation that stopped mid-sentence roughly nine hours earlier.
Not a fight. Not even a disagreement. Someone started saying something. I opened my mouth to answer. A phone rang. We never picked it back up. Nothing actually happened.
My brain